Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. The Federal Reserve recently released new household data in two ...

Over the past several years, a frequent topic of discussion among op-ed writers, including myself, has been the extraordinary, and steadily widening, gap between the rich and the poor in this country.

Changes in overall economic conditions may affect real household income levels and also how income is distributed across households. Analysis using annual data from 1967 to 2023 shows that the adverse ...

It is good to see economists finally address the matter of income inequality using income after taxes and transfer payments to analyze the distribution of household income (“Income Equality, Not ...