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 ...

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 ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday called the breadth and depth of inequality in America a serious problem that strikes at the core of the country's social and economic values. She made her ...

If you aren't morally outraged by the idea of some Americans having ludicrously more money than others and the death of the American dream, then perhaps you will be moved to see that income inequality ...

Inequality in America is about more than the rich and the poor. Significant income gaps are present by age, by race, by occupation, by family type, by homeownership and more. Since 1989, the Federal ...

When you get down to it, the debate over the sequester—the automatic budget cuts that kicked in on Friday—is really about the future of the middle class. Democrats want to close tax loopholes for the ...

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 ...

[caption id="attachment_22605" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Catania Sicily, Italy. Men with a lower level of education live shorter lives, on average, than their ...

[caption id="attachment_24567" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A gardener outside a luxury auto showroom in Beijing. China has moved from being moderately unequal in ...