President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

There’s a common thread tying together the most disruptive revolutions of human history, and it has some scientists worried about the United States. In those revolutions, conflict largely boiled down ...

IS South Africa the world’s most unequal country? No. The numbers are lying to you. The Gini Coefficient, the flawed metric behind this damaging myth, ignores billions in black wealth, millions of ...

Earlier this year, several analysts at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective took a look at income inequality in the major U.S. sports leagues. Using Gini coefficients, an economic tool that distills ...

Across the U.S. income inequality is rising more and more, both on the national level and at the city level. Income inequality is an increasing problem in the United States and has been for several ...