The wealth gap in the United States isn't just wide—it's a chasm. The top 1 percent, about 1.3 million households, hold $52 trillion in net worth. The bottom 50 percent, 66 million households, scrape ...

As the United States reaches its 250th year, the widening gulf between the very rich few and the rest of us has become glaringly apparent. In 2024, the richest 10% held over 67% of household wealth in ...

Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

San Francisco's tech boom coexists with a severe drug epidemic and homelessness, leading to high overdose rates and criticism ...

How can researchers measure poverty and understand local development needs in places where conventional data collection is difficult or impossible? To overcome this obstacle, Rutgers researchers have ...

*Attorney Antonio Moore and Political Commentator Yvette Carnell answer the recent video by Boyce Watkins stating that the Racial Wealth Gap is an illusion (See Here). In the video the two address the ...

The 2025 Silicon Valley Pain Index, an annual study produced by San Jose State University’s Human Rights Institute, reveals a social order teetering under the weight of grotesque inequality. The most ...

Older adults with the fewest financial resources die nine years earlier, on average, than those with the greatest wealth, according to a report by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and the ...

ABC Owned Television Stations is joining forces with Microsoft Philanthropy to drive conversations about building wealth in the Black community in a new one-hour documentary special called "Our ...

In mathematics, you often have to deal with the problem of division by zero—an undefined gesture toward infinity. Charting the wealth gap between white and Black Americans over time poses a similar ...