Part 1 in the series, “Inequality and the Middle Class.” Also available: Part 2. Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released a report on trends in wages, earnings, and incomes called, “Wage ...

These basic trends are well known, but far less attention has been devoted to the relationship between them — that is, to the growth of class inequalities among women. It turns out that the nation’s ...

In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity — race or class? A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges ...

Campus protests have triggered wide-ranging discussion and debate about race. And, because some of the most prominent protests have unfolded at universities like Yale, Princeton and Harvard ...

The connection between class inequality and asset price bubbles is well established. That is, the gap between the very rich and everyone else tends to widen around the same time that over-investment ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress unveiled a new paper examining how the strength of the middle class and inequality affect our nation’s economic growth and stability. Despite ...

Political science Prof. Alvin Tillery participated in a national task force on racial and class inequalities, co-editing a report released in September on the intersection of race and class in the ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

I care about economic inequality. I teach a class on it. I wrote a book about it. Yet, recently, two different arguments have popped up with a seemingly similar conclusion: economic inequality hasn’t ...

Over the past three decades, income inequality has risen in most of the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A recent analysis of 22 OECD countries from ...

Want to see airline passengers do a great impression of the Hulk? Parade the economy passengers through first class before a long flight. In a study published Monday, researchers found two big factors ...