On Tuesday morning, the United States Census Bureau released its annual report on income and poverty in the United States. Ostensibly, it didn’t contain many news-grabbing headlines. In 2013, the ...

This chart by Pavlina Tcherneva, an economics professor at Bard University, shows a simple yet shocking trend of how bad income inequality has gotten. The graphic illustrates the distribution of ...

This post originally appeared in Business Insider. Here’s a fantastic chart that basically explains all of economic history. It was annotated by James Plunkett, and it’s based on a chart from ...

French economist Thomas Piketty, best known for "Capital in the 21st Century," has been speaking for the past year about findings from the 2018 World Inequality Report, which he coauthored. He said ...

Here's an interesting chart from the WonkBlog that we saw on the Real-World Economics Review Blog. It shows that Americans in the bottom 90 percent of income brackets (represented by the red line) saw ...