The Chinese leader’s campaign is partly aimed at addressing rising costs of education, healthcare and housing—and if successful could strengthen his expected bid to seek a third term.

The 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act included a little-known provision establishing something called opportunity zones. The plan, which was lauded as a way to direct investments into under-developed communities in the U.S., created 8,764 tax havens that were almost immediately exploited by the wealthy to gobble up capital gains tax breaks. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wessel explains how opportunity zones came to be, who is profiting off of them, and why it’s so difficult to tweak the tax code without creating windfalls for the rich.

A new study found that 10,000 Bitcoin accounts hold 5 million out of the 19 million coins in circulation, or the equivalent of about $232 billion.

Research shows that only half of Americans in their 30s earn more than their parents did at the same age. A few decades ago, nearly all adults did.

Heatmaps showing different kinds of inequality, with code.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

There's been a lot of debate in the last few years about meritocracy, and it's become even more pressing in light of the pandemic. If essential workers are "essential", are they really less meritorious than a banker or accountant? On this episode, we'll be joined by Adrian Wooldridge, political editor at The Economist and author of the new book "The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World". He'll be making the nuanced case in favor of meritocracy, and we'll hear the other side on our next episode.

Far from dissipating over the last decade, misogyny in the ad industry has simply mutated into something insidious, invisible, lurking in the shadows. It’s time to fire up the floodlights.

A new analysis by Johns Hopkins University reveals the tactics hospitals use to pursue patients with unpaid bills.

The McKinsey American Opportunity Survey spotlights views on economic opportunity, the obstacles they face, and the path ahead to create a more inclusive economy.

A collection of essays documenting the financial challenges Millennials face.

Matthew Rognlie says that inequality may not grow in the way Piketty predicts, finding that the long-term rise in capital income is driven mostly by housing, not labor division.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

A decade of academic researchers and federal data reports show large and growing education inequality in America between the rich and poor.

Over the last two decades, the share of U.S. children under age 18 who live in a multigenerational household (with a grandparent and parent) has increased dramatically. Yet we do not know whether this increase is a recent phenomenon or a return to earlier levels of coresidence. Using data from the d …

This article has been translated into Spanish at Matajuegos and into Russian by Dmitry Si.

The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.

Faculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. than the general population