The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Author: Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto One need only glance at headlines about Jeff ...

The numbers don't lie, even when they're uncomfortable. Across America, the gap between the richest and poorest residents has ...

Inside America’s Largest Concentration of Private Wealth In 2025, wealth in the United States crossed an extraordinary ...

In America, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened significantly, with states exhibiting stark disparities in wealth distribution as highlighted in recent analyses. For instance, ...

Until now, however, little has been known about where the richest households are located, which cities are the most unequal and how these trends have evolved. The overall picture is worrying. The ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

Changing course on decades of deepening inequality requires bold action and vision. The U.S. is in the grips of an inequality emergency. Decades of deliberate, regressive policy choices have rigged ...

A familiar Hollywood trope: a technologically advanced, futuristic society riven by inequality. There’s the superelite sliver who enjoys the fruits of progress—and then there’s everybody else, as seen ...

The New Republic recently commissioned a poll asking Americans for their opinions on wealth distribution in the United States. In short, we found that people feel strongly that the superrich own too ...

One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth in America is increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Inequality ...