Income Distribution

I’ve lived and studied poverty most of my life. But you don’t have to be an expert to see why it’s spiking after lawmakers let antipoverty programs expire.

"The accumulation of extreme wealth by the world's richest individuals has become an economic, ecological, and human rights disaster."

New data shows big retailers have the cash to hire more workers and pay them well. They just spend it on stocks and CEOs instead.

Sixty years without substantially narrowing the racial wealth divide is a policy failure.