Editor’s Note: We’ve been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,’ we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I apply unconventional logic to economic issues. In a March 18 post on his “Economics One” blog, John B. Taylor published the very ...

This chart is the one that convinces me that the increase in income inequality in the US is all about globalisation and about very little else. Further, as such it's simply not something that I can ...

After a pandemic that put the gaps in society into life-and-death terms, these visualizations show how some people have thrived over the last year, while others’ financial situation has—at ...

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 ...

First, give credit to where it’s due: David Leonhart of The New York Times has produced a wonderful chart on income inequality in his article, “Our broken economy.” Taken from data compiled by Thomas ...

As discussed in the IMF’s G20 Note, and a blog last week by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, a forthcoming chapter of the World Economic Outlook seeks to understand the decline in the labor ...

"The Debt Trap" lays out how President Johnson thought student loans would combat racial inequality. Johnson's Higher Education Act was part of his "War on Poverty," but student loans took a different ...