Income inequality returns the favor, according to the BIS study, by making it harder to recover from recessions. ... or to draw down public debt once a recovery is underway.

Drawing on information from U.S. income tax returns, Saez and Piketty go back to 1913 to show how the distribution of income changed over the past century. ... Income inequality and economic growth ...

Income inequality has emerged as a central fact of the modern U.S. economy, one that President Obama is expected to denounce as a growing threat to the American dream of upward mobility in his ...

By drawing our attention to the inequality of incomes, many fail to perceive what he is actually accomplishing—a significant increase in the inequality of political power.

In the case of income inequality, ... The draw for people with inherited wealth, which asked entrants to choose a number between 1 and 3 and then drew two balls. Advertisement.

Drawing from the first part of our recent book, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education (Harvard Education Press and the Russell Sage Foundation ...

Drawing data from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey for the years 1986 to 2004, ... Income inequality may actually harm men slightly more than women. Since 1980, ...