The Economic Policy Institute calculated income inequality in the US by state, metropolitan area, and county. This map shows the difference in annual income between the top 1% and the bottom 99% ...

In any capitalist economy, some level of income inequality is to be expected — but when the gap between the rich and the poor ...

In contrast, for the two Latin American countries––Bolivia and Honduras––income inequality increased. Similar trends can be observed for the evolution of the income share of the richest 20 percent of ...

This analysis revealed one particularly strong pattern: countries where income inequality increased more also suffered ... reforms that allow the transition to continue. The poor, in contrast, might ...