“Elysium,” the new movie starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, depicts a world where Earth is a destitute planet, covered in slums and plagued by disease, home to only the poorest of souls. The more ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

Lane Kenworthy’s Dec. 14 Ideas essay, “Almost everything you’ve heard about inequality is wrong,” offers a useful challenge to the popular belief that reducing income inequality is a cure-all for ...

India has officially become one of the most unequal large economies on earth. The World Inequality Report 2026, released Wednesday by the World Inequality Lab (co-directed by Thomas Piketty, Lucas ...