Growing inequality is neither destiny nor a necessary price to pay for economic growth according to UN DESA’s report which was released on Friday, 14 February, and national policies and institutions ...

It’s not the heat growth, it’s the humidity inequality. There’s a great deal of hand-wringing about growth rates these days, and for good reasons. In the past two expansions, real GDP per person grew ...

At the inaugural conference for the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC)—a new $90 million investment initiative centered around making communities more equitable—Shelley ...

Heather Boushey examines why growing income inequality helped boost the wealth of the few and how reversing course is imperative to our nation’s economic well-being. President Obama inherited an ...

Inequality in the United States has become a household concept, if for no other reason than Sen. Bernie Sanders centering his presidential run around fixing it. There’s plenty of visible evidence of ...

We're constantly told that rising inequality is the greatest threat to the peace and prosperity of the nation. And further, that the stagnant wages of the ordinary working guy and gal are an ...

Most of us know by now that the richest Americans are getting even richer. What’s less well known is that America’s richest places are getting richer too. From 2005 to 2017, just five metro ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. A leading child advocacy group challenged state leaders Wednesday to ...

A leading child advocacy group challenged state leaders Wednesday to reverse escalating income and wealth inequality and provide tax relief for up to 90% of Connecticut by shifting tax burdens onto ...