Racial Equality

Rising inequality, newly released data make plain, has left America's metro areas — and neighborhoods — considerably less mixed by income. Are the rich about to bid the rest of...

Just before the election, the satirical web site The Onion ran a fake article that was purportedly written by Barack Obama. In it, the president supposedly promised to seek payments...

Far too many Americans still see poverty and poor people through a racial prism that distorts demographic realities — and undermines efforts to narrow income inequality.

The recession has been hard on everyone. Tens of millions of people lost their jobs. Many of those who didn't lose their jobs suffered salary cuts. Retirement savings and home...

New data has solidified New York's standing as the most unequal major city in the world's most unequal developed nation. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on super-sized sodas...

This election season is full of laments about how polarized American politics has become.  Extreme right-wing Republicans claim they can't see eye to eye with extreme left-wing Democrats.  Politicians are...

In 2030, the majority of U.S. residents under 18 will be people of color. If current household wealth trends continue, the majority of America’s young people will be growing up...

New Census survey stats show a substantial widening in the net worth gap between and within white, black, and Hispanic America. Has the Great Recession been an equal opportunity destroyer?...

The United States, by some benchmarks, has made phenomenal racial progress over the years. In polite white company, for instance, no politico today would ever dare mutter the “N” word....