Check out more from the series here. Listener Tom Scholten from Madison, Wisconsin, asks: Income inequality is a term often mentioned in recent years, but by what measure or criteria is it measured?

as well as the level of income inequality among residents. These four comprehensive metrics are indicators of more than just economic opportunity in a given state; they intersect with employment ...

Mark Stelzner: The historic income inequality we associate with Gilded Age up to the ... CC: So are we looking at the wrong metrics? MS: I think the metrics we use don’t even come close to giving us ...

The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, is a summary measure of income inequality representing how income distribution varies compared with an equal outcome. States with the lowest Gini index figures ...

Dr. Ken Louie, Director of Economic Research Institute of Erie, at Penn State Behrend gave a talk to students on economic ...

Inequality is a notoriously challenging concept on which to make definitive statements. Inequality of what? Of household income or of GDP per capita? Or even of mortality rates themselves, across ...

One of Australia’s most valuable social surveys also found a record number of households have been affected by natural disasters.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, increasing capital gains tax rates could modestly improve economic growth by reducing ...

Douglas County does better than the national average on unemployment, child poverty, flu vaccinations and more, but it has ...

It ranks cities on 13 individual metrics, from job growth and wage growth to income inequality and broadband access. This year's ranking looked at 200 large cities and 203 small cities ...

Japan’s income inequality hit its second-worst level on record, according to a labor ministry survey conducted in 2021. The Gini coefficient--an index that measures income inequality on a ...