Imagine society as a ladder with ten rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status – where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

Protests against gentrification have occurred across several Latin American cities, most recently in Mexico’s capital.

Wealth inequality in the United States is growing, and while some argue that it is a necessary part of a meritocratic system, ...

The president has pitched his trade policies at workers who feel left behind by globalization. But that doesn’t mean trade ...

For many children, a variety of healthy snacks bridge a gap between lunch and dinnertime. Others eat foods that lack vital ...

But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.

Outgoing Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's new book “The Idea of America" is a collection of more than eight dozen ...

“Inequality so mimics poverty in our minds that the United States of America . . . has a lot of features that better resemble a developing nation than a superpower,” he writes.

Professor Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business discusses the U.S. tax code’s effect on wealth inequality and how race has shaped the distribution of wealth.