Income Distribution

In his State of the Union address, the president made a poor attempt to conceal the continued rise in economic inequality under his administration.

New stats from economist Gabriel Zucman dramatize how spectacularly lucrative the last half-century has been for America’s wealthiest.

To understand how wide our economic divide has become, a little imagination can help.

Three new sets of stats help us understand why America’s 400 richest have never been richer.