Despite experiencing the harm of corporate greed and our collapsing social safety net firsthand, workers remain ...

Direct cash allows people to solve their own problems and avoid financial crises, which makes all of us safer and helps our ...

Income includes the revenue streams from wages, salaries, interest on a savings account, dividends from shares of stock, rent, and profits from selling something for more than you paid for it. Unlike ...

After all, the presence of a trillionaire on American soil would certify that we had unquestionably reached an oligarchic ...

The latest issue of our Inequality.org weekly newsletter and guide to the latest on our unequal world.

In today’s world, sharing fact-based content can be a radical act. We encourage our readers to share our graphics and analysis on social media to raise awareness about inequality. But posting and ...

The nonprofit partner to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the Roosevelt Institute reimagines America as it should be: a place where hard work is rewarded, everyone ...

The growing movement to crack down on corporations that reward top executives at worker expense. Since 2018, U.S. publicly held corporations have had to annually report the ratio between their CEO and ...

The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made last year, typical baristas would’ve had to start ...

The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what if instead of being a ...

Men dominate the top of the economic summit while women are saddled with higher levels of debt, poverty, and unpaid care work. The global trend towards extreme wealth and income concentration has ...

The sex-trafficking scandal surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein already has tarnished the reputations of prominent politicians, businessmen, and the British royal family. Now it’s casting a dark ...