Wealth Concentration

With outright lies dominating the estate tax debate on Capitol Hill, two Washington Post columnists have incredibly different takes on the untruths of the anti-tax crowd. This week, the Washington...

While America's wealth grew by 60 percent, so did the number of homeless children.

Staging an Olympics in Boston could help reduce the wealth gap, but only if planners identify the interventions that could reduce the city's most basic disparities.

A $58,000 traffic ticket? A number of European nations don’t let the rich off easy. In the United States, by contrast, we pummel the poor for minor offenses. Apple CEO...

Average Americans today have essentially zilch influence on public policy. You don’t need to trust your gut on that. Political scientist Benjamin Page has the data.

Here are five tax secrets billionaires deploy to keep you paying more than your fair share:

Just 26 companies account for more than half of the $2.1 trillion in untaxed profits U.S. corporations currently hold offshore.

The growing gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else affects much more than the cost of a 50-inch plasma TV.

A new online petition drive is protesting the incredibly high prices that enormously overpaid pharmaceutical CEOs charge for cancer drugs.