Russia’s statistics agency Rosstat has developed a new method for calculating the Gini coefficient, which measures income ...

Ospina for Our World in Data One way to measure income inequality is to look at the share of all income that goes to the top ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

Douglas County does better than the national average on unemployment, child poverty, flu vaccinations and more, but it has more work to do on housing issues and income inequality. That’s according to ...

While Houston stands out among large cities for its job growth and burgeoning high-tech sector, issues with income inequality and housing affordability keep it from cracking the top 10 in a new ...

The U.S. economy is more dependent than ever on the lavish spending of the wealthiest, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. The top 10% of earners (households making $250,000 per year or more) ...

Income inequality in the United States has looked about the same for years now: The richest 10% of households earn more than a third of all income, and the poorest earn less than 2%. In Minnesota, ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...