In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity — race or class? A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress unveiled a new paper examining how the strength of the middle class and inequality affect our nation’s economic growth and stability. Despite ...

I care about economic inequality. I teach a class on it. I wrote a book about it. Yet, recently, two different arguments have popped up with a seemingly similar conclusion: economic inequality hasn’t ...

Is white privilege real? It depends on how you define it. Yet, for millions of white people, the progressive emphasis on white privilege is offensive – and justifiably so. For there are millions of ...

Abstract and Introduction Focus On Fundamental Forces Versus Disease The Issue Of Caring (Or Not) Poorly Focused Research References The Issue Of Caring (Or Not) People do not really care about the ...

The connection between class inequality and asset price bubbles is well established. That is, the gap between the very rich and everyone else tends to widen around the same time that over-investment ...

Daniel Akst is a member of the Newsday editorial board. Fifty years ago, Kurt Vonnegut published a short story about a society beset by radical egalitarianism. Titled "Harrison Bergeron" and set in ...

America has never been richer. But the gains are so lopsided that the top 10% controls 69% of all wealth in the country, while the bottom half controls just 3%. Meanwhile, surging corporate profits ...