The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

An interesting set of some 40 charts depicting poverty levels, inequality, and income distributions covering 191 countries between 1970 and 2006 in a paper from MIT's Maxim Pinkovskiy and Columbia's ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday called the breadth and depth of inequality in America a serious problem that strikes at the core of the country's social and economic values. She made her ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One of the evergreen arguments in the debate over rising income inequality is that ...

Inequality in America is about more than the rich and the poor. Significant income gaps are present by age, by race, by occupation, by family type, by homeownership and more. Since 1989, the Federal ...

[caption id="attachment_22069" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Luxury yachts in Monaco: The surge in top incomes, combined with high savings, has resulted in growing ...

First, give credit to where it’s due: David Leonhart of The New York Times has produced a wonderful chart on income inequality in his article, “Our broken economy.” Taken from data compiled by Thomas ...

[caption id="attachment_24567" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A gardener outside a luxury auto showroom in Beijing. China has moved from being moderately unequal in ...

Why does the US economy still feel iffy to most Americans despite an eight-year economic expansion and historically low unemployment? Look no further than this eye-popping chart of income growth ...