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 ...

It's human nature to want to know how much your friends and neighbors make every year. But straight-up asking that sort of thing is a really quick way to make everyone very uncomfortable. Though, if ...