It's worth pointing out again, however, how much the disparity between rich and poor, as well as the disparity between the rich and the really rich, has widened over the past few decades.

But the American economy is also plagued by a less-noted, but just as serious, problem: Simply put, over the last 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened into a chasm. Gradual ...

One of the pet topics of anti-capitalists like Bernie Sanders is the gap between rich and poor. In their opinion ... increasingly influential in the United States, especially because two of ...

“Among lower-income families, the gap between white households and their black and Hispanic counterparts shrank by about half from 2007 to 2016. But among middle-class families, it increased and ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Harvard economist Nathan Hendren, a co-author of the study, which shows social mobility in the United States is ... still is a big gap between rich and poor.

Soon, income inequality might be added to that list. The Western state has the dubious distinction of ranking first nationwide when it comes to fastest-growing income inequality, according to a ...

The US wealth gap is sapping economic growth, the Economic Policy Institute said in a study. The top 10% of earners are the only ones to have their income share grow since 1979. That's led to less ...

The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. Income inequality reached a record high in 2018 since the US Census began tracking it 50 years ago, reported Taylor Telford for The ...

The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger in the world's richest countries - and particularly the United States - as top earners' incomes soar while others' stagnate, according to a 30 ...