Inequality is a big deal.

Data is cool, and visualizing it is even cooler, especially when it results in interesting maps such as Carnegie Mellon University’s new interactive map about income inequality around the world. Today ...

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 ...

Pretty cool: a map that visualizes income inequality using Manhattan as a scale. This appeared on the third issue of n+1’s Occupy! gazette. Maria Popova has an explanation: The graphic is inspired by ...

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Market income inequality in Japan has been on a steady rise since the 1980s, and is now close to the OECD average. Gross and disposable income inequality, on the other hand, have risen much less but ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. In its first 250 years, the U.S.

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy. That’s exactly the claim that Gerald Auten and ...

In 1965, CEOs of American companies earned, on average, twenty times more than their typical employee. By 2023, that ratio had soared to 290 to 1. This divide is one indicator of economic inequality, ...