I often start the first-year managerial economics classes I teach by showing a graph to my MBA students (see below). It shows that in 1951, middle-income Indians (from the middle 40 th percentile, ...

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

Or if that's too ambitious a goal then how about how to reduce inequality in America? Now, I have to admit, that inequality really isn't one of those things that I worry about very much. Poverty is, ...

During the 2012 election, America’s historically high levels of inequality became an issue in politics like no time in recent memory. By the 2016 go-around, income inequality is on the path to ...

The biggest story in the United States economy, beyond its general crappiness, is the extreme inequality that has developed over the past three decades. The top 1% of the country is now taking home a ...

It didn’t sound like the hottest ticket in Paris: a debate on the theme of “property” between two of the city’s economists, Frédéric Lordon and Thomas Piketty, on a January night in a dingy hall at ...

Did you file on time? A tax professional friend of mine told me recently that he’s surprised every year to see how many people leave their tax filing to the last minute. Maybe they’re too busy. Maybe ...

Coming up next: President Barack Obama solves inequality? Don’t hold your breath. He’s building his new agenda around an issue that has been in the making for decades: economic inequality. It’s ...

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Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...