Income Inequality Archives

A Dollar Tree store is seen on July 28, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Dollar Tree announced it will buy Family Dollar Stores for about $8.5 billion in cash and stock. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Economy

What Dollar Tree’s purchase of Family Dollar says about the U.S. economy

Joseph Lawler -

July 31, 2014 9:00 am

Economy

The median American household lost a third of its wealth in the last 10 years

Joseph Lawler -

July 29, 2014 9:00 am

Politics

10 ways Obama tries to sound populist

Brian Hughes -

July 24, 2014 8:08 pm

In this Wednesday, July 23, 2014 photo, U.N. Development Program Administrator Helen Clark of New Zealand speaks during an interview at a hotel in Tokyo. The U.N. Development Program reached similar conclusions in a report issued in July that urged governments to make providing employment and countering rising inequality top priorities.
The inequality debate is raging, says UNDP head Clark, because people are questioning the longstanding premise that in societies like the United States, opportunities are equal for all. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Business

UN human development report faults inequality

Elaine Kurtenbach -

July 24, 2014 5:28 am

A bus with a sign $10.10 on the side toured the country for Americans United for Change, which is promoting the minimum wage hike from $7.25 an hour. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Poll: Republicans couldn’t live on minimum wage — but fight raising it

Paul Bedard -

July 22, 2014 1:03 am

News

Senate Dems, GOP woo female voters for this fall

Charles Babington -

July 17, 2014 5:37 pm

Considering Ways to Look at Income Inequality

Frank Lavin -

July 17, 2014 12:35 pm

In this photo taken on Friday, July 11, 2014, a landscaper shapes hedges on private property in Southampton, N.Y. Studies show the gap separating the rich from the working poor has been ever-widening in recent years and few places provide that evidence as starkly as Long Island's Hamptons. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Business

Workers struggle in Hamptons, playground for rich

Frank Eltman -

July 12, 2014 5:32 pm

The stock market reached a record high last week, closing over 17,000 for the first time. (iStock Photo)

Columnists

Dow at 17,000 — but you’re not invited

Larry Elder -

July 10, 2014 2:48 pm

Beltway Confidential

These are the 10 wealthiest ZIP codes in America

Becket Adams -

July 7, 2014 9:30 pm

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