Income Distribution

Redistribution via the tax code, progressives on both sides of the Atlantic are realizing, only takes us so far. We need to start limiting inequality before it can dig in.

For average Americans, the U.S. economy hardly merits any kudos. Two new data dumps make that reality even plainer.

We know a great deal more about how unequal we’ve become than our progressive forbears did in America’s original Gilded Age. But can data fuel a fight for a more equal world?

New Economic Policy Institute research exposes just how top-heavy many of the places Americans call home have become.