About one in eight Americans become part of the 1 percent for at least a year.

The widening gap between rich and poor is decried by both the president and Pope

Harvard Business School's Nancy Koehn says the bottom 90 percent of the population spends money in a way that create jobs

Last night in his State of the Union address, President Obama touched on several economic themes, including jobs, the middle class, health care, and something he has been talking quite a bit about recently — income inequality.

Congress's Joint Economic Committee holds a hearing on income inequality. Just the latest congressional foray into the problem.

A report shows that more than half of Congress members are millionaires.

An advocacy group says the U.S. economy won't thrive unless everyone is included.

Incoming New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was elected on a message of repairing income inequality in the nation's largest metropolis. Just how bad is it?

There are mayoral elections in a lot of cities across the U.S. today and one thread that's common to a lot of those city races is the issue of income inequality.

The OECD releases its “How’s Life?” study today where it measured the happiness of 33 countries.