Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New research suggests a more nuanced reality. The updated Inequality of Human Progress Index assesses how the pandemic affected progress toward a more ...

Data from the Federal Reserve shows that the so-called K-shaped economy in America is alive and well, with low- and middle-income households falling further behind as the richest Americans pull away.

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the subject. Nicolas Sommet, a social psychologist and research manager at the LIVES ...

Rarely in politics do we see genuinely new big ideas; instead, we see old ideas repackaged and communicated through new media. However, new technology often has a dramatic impact. The most obvious ...

A meta-analysis of 168 studies covering more than 11 million people found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health. In other words, living in a place that has large ...

“Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar Thomas Piketty has suggested that “inequality denial is as dangerous as climate ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

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Matt Katz (left) and Jake Welty (right) reveal the one-of-one Vector M12 racecar. Video by Drew Manley (Cooled Collective) In a nondescript storage facility on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a small ...

Connecticut does not have the biggest income inequality in the nation, but it ranks among the highest. The state consistently appears near the top of national rankings for income inequality, often in ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

Earlier this month, scholars working at the London School of Economics argued, “It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality.” The authors note that of the various ways we could ...