Inequality

The Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement reports the official poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6%, not statistically different from 2020.

It’s financial equality. Duh.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

Recent research concludes that the rise in consumption inequality mirrors, or even exceeds, the rise in income inequality. We revisit this finding, constructing improved measures of consumption, focusing on its well-measured components that are reported at a high and stable rate relative to national accounts. While overall income inequality rose over the past 5 decades, the rise in overall consumption inequality was small. The declining quality of income data likely contributes to these differences for the bottom of the distribution. Asset price changes likely account for some of the differences in recent years for the top of the distribution.

In an era of surging home and stock values, U.S. family wealth has soared. The trillions of dollars going to heirs will largely reinforce inequality.

In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new analysis of median hourly earnings of full- and part-time workers.

In marriages where both partners have the same income, women spend about four-and-a-half more hours a week on chores and caregiving than men.

Why beauty bias financially hurts all women.

If women don’t conform to beauty expectations, they’re paid less.

In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new analysis of median hourly earnings of full- and part-time workers.

There are more than one equal pay day to denote the day that women of color must work until before their wages catch up with men's.

CNBC Marathon explores why American workers’ budgets feel so stretched.The middle class was once a symbol of the American dream. It meant financial security ...

What if racial and gender gaps did not exist in the labor market? Our Labor Market Equity Simulation estimates GDP gains for every US state.

The racial wealth gap refers to the difference in assets among different racial and ethnic groups, reflecting resource and opportunity disparities.

In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new analysis of median hourly earnings of full- and part-time workers.

Intelligence helps in making money, but only to a point.

On relative wealth and why most people feel like they don't have enough.

View real (i.e., inflation-adjusted), average net worth by race/ethnicity, age and education using the Fed's Distributional Financial Accounts.

The share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021, according to a new analysis.

Egalitarians today invoke “equality” to deny any variation in qualities among individuals, or in the resulting qualitative tendencies among sets of similar individuals. They condemn any acknowledgment of differences in aptitude, ability, character, and accomplishment as an affront to equality. But this is far removed from the kind of equality that the authors of the Declaration of Independence were referring to.

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This visualization breaks down how household wealth is distributed around the world. Just 10 countries now account for 75% of total household wealth.

The wage gap for many women of color is not only wider than the overall gender wage gap, but it is also closing more slowly.

The share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021, according to a new analysis.

Gini index - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States from The World Bank: Data

Public policy experts call income and wealth inequality one of the defining challenges of this century. Recent crises have accelerated these divisions, and the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened them fur…