Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...

Widening disparities in income and wealth both within and across countries have become among the most pressing global challenges of our time. As inequalities deepen, the call for coordinated ...

I often start the first-year managerial economics classes I teach by showing a graph to my MBA students (see below). It shows that in 1951, middle-income Indians (from the middle 40 th percentile, ...

Inequality is inevitable in a market economy like America’s. There is unequal income and wealth because people are different. They’re competing. Some people want to work harder, they apply themselves ...

Why has absolute deprivation continued to grow in the UK? What role does high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice? With child mortality rising in the UK and ...

Editor’s Note: Errol Louis is the host of “Inside City Hall,” a nightly political show on NY1, a New York all-news channel. Less than a day after officially concluding 12 tumultuous years as mayor, ...