FILE - In this April 18, 2020, file photo, tents line a sidewalk on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco. Moving to address income inequality on a local level, San Francisco voters passed several tax ...

Debates about inequality often jump straight from moral outrage to policy wish lists, skipping the harder question of what a radically different distribution of wealth would do to growth itself. If ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

A combination of lower salaries for high-end earners and higher wages for lower-income jobs compresses Hawaii’s income wage gap, meaning the islands have a more equitable distribution of income, ...

It’s a wild thought exercise and one we were curious about. And well, it turns out, when you dive deeper, the math reveals just how much wealth inequality permeates this part of American finances. The ...

29 November 2010 It helps first to distinguish between two concepts: wealth distribution and income distribution among citizens. Income is the net revenue during a certain period of time, a month or a ...

A good friend asked for my take on how increasing the number of low income housing units in the City of Oroville came to be. My friend knew I had attended hundreds of council meetings the past 15 ...

The U.S. stock market generates enormous wealth, but that wealth concentrates heavily at the top. What if it didn’t? What if every American owned an equal share of publicly traded companies? It’s a ...