Income inequality measurement and distributional analysis combine a suite of statistical tools and theoretical frameworks to quantify disparities in earnings and resources across individuals, ...

Newly published data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicates in 2019, before the onset of the pandemic, American incomes continued to rise as part of a broad economic expansion. It also ...

Motio Research is now providing monthly U.S. household income estimates by income quartiles. They've now expanded to capture the quartile thresholds of that distribution, introducing indexes for the ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Survey researchers often examine how people’s attitudes and experiences differ ...

The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...

This paper was presented at the First Conference of the Americas, held by the Organization of American States in Washington on 6 March 1998. Great social inequality has long been a frustrating feature ...

A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) estimates that states could replace existing individual income, corporate income, and sales taxes with broad-based sales taxes at ...