Topic Economic Inequality

Economic inequality is the unequal distribution of income and wealth and it has been rising in the United States in recent decades. Questions about whether and how this rise in inequality affects economic growth and stability are fundamental to Equitable Growth’s work, which explores how economic inequality impacts individuals and families across a wide range of issues, and what policies might address these challenges.

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U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon

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A review of federal lending to small business owners of color during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Why the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is good economics

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Six charts that explain how inequality in the United States changed over the past 20 years

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In Conversation with Mehrsa Baradaran

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The logistics of a reparations program in the United States

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Building a Strong Foundation: Understanding Whether and How Economic Inequality Affects Economic Growth

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Building a strong foundation for the U.S. economy

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A new and useful measure of inequality

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A White Paper on Piketty’s Theory of Inequality and its Critics

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Reversing inequality at the bottom: The role of the minimum wage

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What the wealthy know and believe about economic inequality

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Income inequality affects our children’s educational opportunities

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Economic inequality and growth in the United Kingdom: Insights for the United States

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Deep data matters when assessing global income inequality

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Are wealth and income inequality increasing?

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Miscalculating the wealth of the rich reveals unintended biases

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The prison boom and black-white economic inequality

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