Everyone knows that the rich have been pulling away from the poor in terms of income and wealth. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, not to mention the CBO, have established that pretty definitively ...

Even Piketty admits that the gap between the poor and the rich has not grown for most of the twentieth century. At the same time, he does criticize the fact that “inequalities” in terms of ...

Why do rich kids end up doing better than poor kids in school? Of late, one common explanation for this has been the “word gap,” or the idea that poor children are exposed to significantly ...

The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger in the world's richest countries - and particularly the United States - as top earners' incomes soar while others' stagnate, according to a 30 ...

Differences in achievements of rich and poor students have taken a backseat to the gap between black and white children in education in the last 60 years.

The widening rich-poor diet gap is disconcerting and "will have important public health implications," said study co-author Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health.

With an income share gap of 40.40% between the top 10% and bottom 50% population of the country, Eritrea ranks 29th among the ...

WASHINGTON — The expanding gap between rich and poor is not only widening the gulf in incomes and wealth in America. It is helping the rich lead longer lives, while cutting short the lives of ...

Over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor increased in almost every country in the developed world. In all those countries on the left, the incomes of rich households rose at faster ...

But, as I said, it is easier for the rich, in most cases, to absorb these shocks than the poor. The reforms on the economy, by their nature, impact more on the poor than the rich.