Now that new detailed Census Bureau data are available for US household income in 2014, and just in time for Obama’s final State of the Union address tonight, I present my annual post titled ...

Trade makes for peaceful relationships between nations, but gains for consumers and workers aren't spread evenly. Many economists and politicians argue that international trade has been a good thing.

“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race” was the message told to students, faculty and community members in the overflowing Klarman auditorium, Wednesday evening. Prof.

Ezra Klein thinks the rise in income inequality is closely to tied to the debt boom: The acceleration in inequality and the acceleration in debt mirror each other pretty closely. Both accelerate in ...

Gaps in educational achievement and shifts in technology, often cited as key reasons for widening income and wealth inequality, do very little to explain the trend, said Lawrence Mishel, president of ...

THE PUBLICATION six years ago of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”—an 800-page tome that has since sold over 2.5m copies—helped reveal the huge increase in inequality in the West ...

Study objectives: There are contradictory perspectives on the importance of conventional coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors in explaining population levels and social gradients in CHD. This ...

The Census Bureau released its annual report yesterday on “Income and Poverty in the United States” with lots of new updated data on household income and household demographics. Based on those new ...

“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race” was the message told to students, faculty and community members in the overflowing Klarman auditorium, Wednesday evening. Prof.