Why do gender pay gaps and other disparities persist despite converging education levels and mounting evidence that the ...

Evidence from survey research suggests that most people in the United States recognize economic inequality as a social problem in our society. And many of us are willing to acknowledge that ...

Growing economic inequality is either “a major issue of our time” or “a defining challenge of our time,” depending on your taste for hyperbole. Given America’s recent experience, however, I would like ...

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Capitalism has a public relations problem. While many will grudgingly admit that capitalism, the economic system based on private property and free trading, yields faster rates of economic growth, ...

Growing income inequality is one of the biggest factors impacting the shortfall in Social Security. With less tax revenue coming in than expected over the past 40 years, Social Security's trust fund ...

So says Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He’s the author of Just Growth, and most recently Equity, Growth, and Community ...

Last week I noted some of the problems with trying to attack inequality by taxing the wealth, or the unrealized capital gains, of billionaires: When you tax something heavily, you generally get less ...