The World Inequality Report found that debt is why the US has more wealth inequality than Europe. The opposite used to be true, but mortgages and student debt put the US middle class in a bind. Both ...

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 ...

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, ...

While upper-class families steer their children toward knowledge, academia, and secure futures, children from lower-class families are condemned at an early age to work, insecurity, and narrow life ...

“Inequality For All” is part Reich lecture and part Reich biopic. The film is structured around Reich’s Wealth and Poverty class at Berkeley, which is overflowing with eager students wanting to learn ...

A century ago, economic experts thought everybody living in the present era would have it made. And broadly speaking, we do: We live longer, we seldom try benightedly to “cure” gay people, we no ...