Income inequality

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Pascal Soriot, chief executive officer of Astrazeneca Plc, speaks during an interview in London, U.K.

U.K. CEOs are facing off with shareholders to get U.S.-level pay. With interest rates set to fall, they might get it

May 9, 2024

Esther Duflo accepting her Nobel prize in 2019

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from climate change—and most Americans likely agree with the plan

By Sunny Nagpaul

April 20, 2024

Ken Paxton

Texas AG sues to halt a guaranteed income program, calling it a ‘socialist experiment’

By Juan Lozano and The Associated Press

April 9, 2024

Shot of a young businesswoman looking stressed out while working on a laptop in an office

Women outearn men in just a handful of U.S. cities, report finds—and not by a lot

March 27, 2024

hispanic latina college student works on assignment in her dorm room.She is smiling and in the background there is a big blackboard

These are the worst-paying college degrees, according to a Fed analysis of 75 majors

March 19, 2024

Jacob Chansley, also known as the "QAnon Shaman," screams "Freedom" inside the U.S. Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress

One of the few forecasters to predict violence and chaos in 2020 thinks spiraling inequality is pushing the U.S. closer to collapse than Russia

March 12, 2024

Paul Bettencourt

Texas lawmaker who opposes giving $500 per month to 1,900 Houstonians sponsored a bill to save every homeowner $1,300 a year

February 5, 2024

The ‘beauty bubble’ is real. Just ask the man who’s been studying the link between being hot and making more money for 30 years

The ‘beauty bubble’ is real. Just ask the man who’s been studying the link between being hot and making more money for 30 years

By Irina Ivanova

February 3, 2024

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

The world’s 5 richest people, from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos to Warren Buffett, doubled their wealth to $869 billion since 2020, report finds

By Paolo Confino

January 16, 2024

Trader

The running of the bulls in 2023 was more like the waddle of the fat cats

By Irina Ivanova

January 13, 2024

a picture showing a busy street in the city of London

Britain’s snail-pace growth has set U.K. households back by $10,500 as peers in France and Germany pull away

By Prarthana Prakash

December 4, 2023

Microsoft instructed all workers to set diversity goals in performance reviews. Employees taking optional DEI courses increased by 270%

November 8, 2023

Rising education and income could soon make Latinos a major economic force. But barriers still exist

Rising education and income could soon make Latinos a major economic force. But barriers still exist

October 25, 2023

American economist Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the Nobel prize in economics, talks to the press at Harvard University.

New Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin says ‘greedy jobs’ are becoming more accessible to women—but companies need to stay flexible

By Chloe Taylor

October 13, 2023

Women drop $15 billion more annually on medical expenses than men. How employers can fix the covert health insurance ‘pink tax’

Women drop $15 billion more annually on medical expenses than men. How employers can fix the covert health insurance ‘pink tax’

September 26, 2023

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