Pay is rising much faster for the top 1% of earners compared with those on average salaries in the richest countries, according to a report calling on governments to do more to tackle “wageless growth” since the financial crisis. Despite more people being in work than at any time since the onset of the banking crisis a decade ago, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said wage growth was still “missing in action” across the 35 countries represented by the Paris-based group of wealthy nations.

Everyone agrees inequality is on the rise. Here are proposals to curb it. By Jeff Stein.

You’ve probably heard the news that the celebrated post-WW II beating heart of America known as the middle class has gone from “burdened,” to “squeezed” to “dying.” But you might have heard less about what exactly is emerging in its place. In a new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, draws a portrait of the new reality in a way that is frighteningly, indelibly clear: America is not one country anymore. It is becoming two, each with vastly different resources, expectations, and fates.

A recent study finds that young people who get financial support from their parents have greater professional success, highlighting one way social inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next. “The question underlying this work was whether parental support gives adult children an advantage or hinders their development,” says Anna Manzoni, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University and author of a paper on the work.

The League is among a new crop of dating apps whose business models are predicated on the age-old reality that courtship is partly an economic exercise.

World leaders urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a ‘tipping point’

Fifty years since the Kerner Commission’s landmark study of racial inequality, we face similar problems. The issue lies in how we talk about equality. By Vanessa A. Bee.

Former President Jimmy Carter says the power wielded by people who give a lot of money to political candidates has resulted in a “vast disparity in income in America” and that that has “resulted in polarization more than any other single factor.” In the second part of a wide-ranging interview, Carter talks with Judy Woodruff about how his own faith, the NRA and allegations against the president.

The Dodd-Frank act mandated that publicly listed companies would have to publish an annual figure listing the ratio between their CEO's pay and their median worker's pay: now, after nearly a decade of stalling tactics from corporate lobbyists, those figures are emerging

"[W]e will have gone from 'No Irish Need Apply' to only-certain-well-educated-and-therefore-already-advantaged-Irish can apply." By Sadhbh Walshe.

While they may be thriving economically, coastal cities thrive on income inequality and a politically powerless underclass. By Reihan Salam.

The same cities that struggle to provide affordable housing today eliminated their critical-but-maligned flexible housing stock after World War II. By Ariel Aberg-Riger.

Lack of dental care through Medicaid not only harms people’s health, but has negative economic implications as well. By Austin Frakt.

A new report on Americans with limited incomes says that poor choices aren’t why people are poor. By Richard Eisenberg.

We should provide a guaranteed income of $500 a month for every working adult who makes less than $50,000, argues Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes

The horror that roils beneath your happy hamlet. By Laura Hudson.

Melvin Van Peebles

The Australian government recently tried to replace social services with software. What does fully automated austerity look like? By Gillian Terzis.

When journalist Carrie Gracie walked into parliament on Wednesday, ready to deliver some damning testimony about her treatment at the hands of the BBC – testimony that would be beamed around the world – she was accompanied by a representative from her union, and that was about it. The BBC director general Tony Hall, in contrast, had a dozen minders. “Tells you all you need to know really,” commented one seasoned BBC campaigner, eyeing the scene wearily.

Renewing Inequality maps and explores urban renewal in the United States between 1950 and 1966, focusing upon the more than 300,000 families that the program displaced in more than 600 cities and towns.