Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress unveiled a new paper examining how the strength of the middle class and inequality affect our nation’s economic growth and stability. Despite ...

The election of Barack Obama seemed a harbinger of a postracial society, a powerful embodiment of a new, colorblind ethos, providing evidence that America had finally shed its racial baggage. For many ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

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In the run up to Christmas, stores in France couldn't hold on to copies of a board game that illustrates modern wealth inequality by forcing players to fight each other as they struggle to be accepted ...

Demonizing the rich and condemning disparities of wealth have been pillars of Democratic Party politics for decades. Franklin Delano Roosevelt lambasted wealthy Americans who “did not want to pay a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is white privilege real? It depends on how you define it. Yet, for millions of white people, the progressive emphasis on white ...

I care about economic inequality. I teach a class on it. I wrote a book about it. Yet, recently, two different arguments have popped up with a seemingly similar conclusion: economic inequality hasn’t ...

A Vox reader asks: What is wealth inequality and class warfare and why is it extra bad at this point in time? “Wealth” is someone’s net worth — that is, their assets (like savings, stock portfolios, ...