Here’s a closer look at the current state of income and wealth inequality: The middle class is still struggling First, some good news: Last year, middle-class households reaped an income gain of ...

In Europe, the proportion of national wealth owned by the top 10 percent was equivalent to more than 80 percent in 1810, and rose during the 19 th century and early 20 th century, reaching 90 percent ...

This chart shows the share of Americans in each part of the wealth distribution who directly own stocks. While over half of families in the top 10% own stocks, only 2% in the bottom quarter do.

If Warren Buffett’s $154 billion fortune were split evenly, how much would you get? The answer might surprise you—and say a ...

Until we get to the explanation for why inequality caused the recession or is keeping us from recovering, I'll be skeptical of complaints about wealth distribution in the US.

US wealth, income concentration ... their share of the country's wealth shrank to 6.7% from 7% during that time. ... Yet Dynan noted that the rise in wealth over that period was 30% for families ...

Today, the gap between the rich and poor only seems to grow wider each year. But economic inequality isn’t just […] ...

America's racial wealth gap widens as frightening graph shows how much more average white families are worth than their Black and Hispanic counterparts - and why the 'silver bullet' won't work ...

In last night's introduction to Rachel's interview with Chris Hayes about his new book, she showed a graph depicting the wealth distribution people prefer, the distribution they think exists and ...

As the chart above shows, baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — collectively owned 21 percent of the nation’s wealth by the time their generation hit a median age of 35 in 1990.

Below is a pie chart showing the distribution of wealth by state.Wealthiest states are bluer than the rest of the US, and they’re usually bigger spenders and in a bigger hole than are the rest ...

For each site the experts calculated the Gini coefficient, a standard measure of wealth distribution. The gap between rich and poor in the United States is shown for reference. Matthew Twombly ...