“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

Inequalities that use < or > symbols are plotted with a dashed line to show that the line is not included in the region. Inequalities that use ≤ or ≥ symbols are plotted with a solid line to show that ...

Show values that satisfy an inequality on a set of axes by drawing the line of the corresponding equation and shading the area specified in a question. Include a dashed line for inequalities where the ...

In this week’s magazine, I’ve got a lengthy piece about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century,” a new book about rising inequality by Thomas Piketty, a French economist, that is sparking a lot of ...

Defenders of the economic status quo in America continue to assert that economic inequality (1) doesn't exist, (2) isn't as bad as you think, or (3) is actually good for everybody. That's despite ...

Here's the story of income inequality in America over the past 40 years. Hover over each line to identify household income, and click through to see the percentage growth over the past 40 years. The ...