issue Inequality & Mobility

Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity.

Photo credit: Monster Ztudio/shutterstock.com

During the mid-20th century, strong economic growth was broadly shared, as incomes increased and children could expect a better quality of life than their parents, though significant disparities across demographic groups remained. In recent decades, wealth, income, and earnings inequality have been rising and mobility declining, and demographic disparities persist. Better understanding these trends and their implications for economic growth will inform evidence-backed policies that improve growth and mobility for people across incomes, regions, and demographic groups.

Featured Research

In Conversation

In Conversation with Miles Corak

Inequality & Mobility
report

U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

Inequality & Mobility
In Conversation

In conversation with Sasha Killewald

Inequality & Mobility
post

GDP 2.0: Measuring who prospers when the U.S. economy grows

Inequality & Mobility
post

Stratification economics: What it is and how it advances our understanding of inequality

Inequality & Mobility
post

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

Inequality & Mobility
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: GDP 2.0

Explore Content in Inequality & Mobility2587

Reset
post

Is there a skilled labor shortage? The economic evidence on skills gap and labor shortage concerns

LaborInequality & MobilityFamilies
Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Scholars researching how Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities navigate the U.S. economy, labor market, and society

Inequality & Mobility
post

The impact of different inflationary pressures due to income inequality and racial disparities in the United States today

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
post

Developing a research agenda on racial and gender equity in the pandemic-era U.S. labor market

FamiliesInequality & MobilityLabor
post

Three observations from the kick-off of a new consensus study by the National Academy of Sciences on measuring U.S. economic inequality

Inequality & Mobility
post

Equitable Growth to welcome visiting scholars as part of two American Economic Association summer programs

Inequality & Mobility
post

Mitigating the impact of wildfires on homes is critical to improving U.S. economic outcomes

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
post

New research documents the high cost of residential racial segregation in Northern cities of the United States

Inequality & Mobility
working paper

Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation

Inequality & Mobility
post

Jobs report: Amid continued job gains, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander workers experience the U.S. labor market in different and often hidden ways

LaborInequality & Mobility
post

Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: April 2022 Report Edition

LaborInequality & Mobility
Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Bolstering labor movements and boosting worker power this May Day

LaborInequality & Mobility

Experts on the issue

Grantee

Morris Kleiner

University of Minnesota

Learn More
Grantee

Heather Sarsons

University of Chicago

Learn More
Grantee

Leah Stokes

University of California, Santa Barbara

Learn More
Grantee

Joan Williams

University of California, Hastings College of Law

Learn More
Grantee

Martina Jasova

Barnard College

Learn More
Connect with us!

Explore the Equitable Growth network of experts around the country and get answers to today's most pressing questions!

Get in Touch