In a recent editorial titled “A Hedge Fund Republic?” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof claims that if you want to observe “rapacious income inequality,” you don’t need to travel to a banana ...

Income inequality in the United States grew between 1979 and 2018, a recent report on the distribution of household income released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found. In the report, ...

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This column tests those competing claims with data courtesy of two Congressional Budget Office reports: 1) Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019, and 2) The Distribution of Household Income, ...