income inequality

Got a spare $250 million? If you’re among the 0.1 percent, you probably do.

How rich are the rich? If only you knew.

February 5, 2018Commentary

What is the best way to measure the gap between rich and poor?

Americans spend six billion hours and $10 billion every year preparing and filing their taxes.

Many countries have a simple, fair tax system. Could the US be next?

September 27, 2017Books

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's new book is called Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

What Germany’s got that America doesn’t

October 26, 2015Economics

Thomas Piketty, the French economist behind President Francois Hollande's plan to tax the wealthy has won acclaim in the US for his work on growing income inequality

A French economist becomes a rock star in the US for writing on the growing gap between rich and poor

May 1, 2014Business, Economics and Jobs