Two years ago this month, Thomas Piketty published his massive tome on inequality, Capital in the 21st Century. Embedded in the 696 pages of tables and analysis was a fairly simple idea: In rich ...

Sisi Mitchell pores over tables of data showing the number of homicides, assaults, arrests and community engagements with police in Minneapolis. Her task is to find which precincts have the most ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

Only about 2 percent of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers are held by Black women. Philadelphia native Atiyah Harmon is on a mission to exponentially increase this ...

University of Manchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Inequality is rising almost everywhere around the world – that’s the clear finding of the first ever World Inequality ...

In the past, Alessandra Mezzadri has received funding from ESRC-DfID and from the British Academy. In the last decade there has been a renaissance in studies stressing the relevance of inequality ...