Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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 ...

Fatema Z. Sumar previously worked as the Vice President of Global Programs at Oxfam America. U.S. income inequality grew in 2021 for the first time in a decade, according to data the Census Bureau ...

The principal purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of 16 food items on the overall food expenditure inequality in Greece using the raw data of Family Budget Surveys conducted during 1987/88 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...