A key finding contained in the latest household income report from Statistics Canada is that the income gap between high-earning and low-earning households has reached record levels. Related to this ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

Across 41 states, the bottom 20% make less than $20,000 on average. Meanwhile, the top 20% earn more than $250,000 in 25 states — accounting for half of America. While it's not exactly a new ...

How will artificial intelligence affect the distribution of income and wealth this century? After falling through much of the 20th century, income inequality, measured as the fraction of income going ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said America’s growing wealth gap shows what a "rigged economy" looks like, pointing to Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. CEO Elon Musk’s fortune as ...

The Roman world, the study finds, was somewhat more egalitarian than Han China — though both were terribly unequal by any ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized the growing wealth disparity in the country, citing the staggering increase in the fortunes of ...

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Reversing toxic consequences of wealth inequality must be the ultimate aim of moral legislators, whose singular mandate is to ...

New York's rich are getting richer, and it's because the bulk of their incomes aren't coming from salaries.