Official income inequality statistics indicate a sharp rise in inequality over the past five decades. These statistics do not accurately reflect inequality because income is poorly measured, ...

Lower-income Americans sharply reduced their gas consumption following the Iran war, yet spiking prices still forced them to ...

Consumption tax, the category that includes sales tax, can impact your wallet.

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New research investigated responses to sweetened beverage taxes using the purchasing behavior of approximately 400 households in Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and Philadelphia. Researchers found ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This has always been a fairly desperate attempt to deny an obvious problem. At the ...

Will Wilkinson has a new paper out on inequality, which I will be blogging about later. But Ezra Klein has an interesting response, which focuses on the difference between income inequality and ...