Thousands of fast food workers took to the streets this week, staging strikes in protest over their low pay. In states where the minimum wage has not been raised above the federal level, if a worker ...

The Costs of Inequality: Education Is the Key to It All Before Deval Patrick '78, J.D. '82, was the popular and successful two-term governor of Massachusetts, before he was managing director of ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...

Several factors help explain why economist Thomas Piketty's groundbreaking new book on economic inequality has been such a surprise hit. First, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is based on an ...

Income inequality theory is a lot like ancient astronaut theory, in that in order to believe in it, you have to disregard a lot of evidence to the contrary. Let's start with the most basic premise of ...

Inequality in both advanced economies and emerging markets has been on the rise in recent decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and raised awareness of disparities between the rich and poor.