Racial Income Inequality In 2021, Fortune 500 CEOs, who earned $18.3 million on average, included just four Black and 17 Latino people — just 4 percent of the total. By contrast, these groups made up ...

One study said happiness peaked at $75,000 in income. Now, economists say it's higher — by a lot. By Aimee Picchi. Aimee Picchi. Associate Managing Editor, MoneyWatch. Aimee Picchi is the ...

The dark triad, consisting of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, may have its origins in four very basic ...

August 2021, Paper: "Downward pressure on the natural rate of interest (r∗) is often attributed to an increase in saving. This study uses microeconomic data from the SCF+ to explore the relative ...

U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past hundred years. But moving beyond this aggregate relationship has proven difficult, in part because of limited microdata on ...

“We still need a basic income grant for those not absorbed by jobs.” She said the department was working to improve data systems, align government programmes and reduce long-term grant dependency.

New York is one of the highest-earning states in the country, but it also has one of the nation’s widest income gaps, according to a new WalletHub study released this week. The state ranks 3rd overall ...

Income inequality rose sharply during the previous Government’s term, according to a new report. Over the course of the five budgets introduced by the coalition, the gap between rich and poor ...

Although data sources show income inequality in Australia has fallen slightly in recent years, wealth is distributed much less equally than income among Australian households. Australia’s highly ...

Impact on inequality . Another prime motivation for minimum wage policies is to reduce income inequality by improving the lot of those at the bottom of the wage distribution. Empirical studies show ...

They estimated a Gini coefficient — a measure of inequality where 0 represents perfect equality and 1 represents total inequality — of 0.437. At the time, the top 1 percent took in 7.1 percent of ...

The US banking industry saw a rise in profits in the first quarter of the year driven by a jump in non-interest income, according to new government numbers. In an announcement from the Federal Deposit ...