Thomas Piketty’s new book examines historical and modern inequality, suggesting a “potentially terrifying” trajectory.

A new study finds that bombarding people with stats and graphs on income inequality and taxes on the rich barely changes anybody's opinion on redistribution ...

The Congressional Budget Office's monster analysis of income inequality is a useful entry in this debate. What it found matches the graph that leads this article, from the Center on Budget and ...

Here's the story of income inequality in America over the past 40 years. Hover over each line to identify household income, and click through to see the percentage growth over the past 40 years.

America’s explosion of income inequality, in one amazing animated chart Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said he believes there should be free public college education in the ...

This chart captures the rise in inequality better than any other chart that I’ve seen.

Since World War II, inequality in the U.S. has gone through two, dramatically different phases. In the first phase, known as the great compression, inequality fell. Incomes rose for people in the ...

Indeed, they find that the global top 1 percent captured twice as much growth as the bottom 50 percent from 1980 to 2016.