Show values that satisfy an inequality on a set of axes by drawing the line of the corresponding equation and shading the area specified in a question. Include a dashed line for inequalities where the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I apply unconventional logic to economic issues. In a March 18 post on his “Economics One” blog, John B. Taylor published the very ...

This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

see the largest income growth. +6% 5% The poor and middle class used to see the largest income growth. Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in ...

Articles, studies and U.S. Census data focusing on wealth inequality rely on the Gini coefficient. How is it calculated, and what does it tell us? Frank Cowell, an economist at the London School of ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Inequalities that use < or > symbols are plotted with a dashed line to show that the line is not included in the region. Inequalities that use ≤ or ≥ symbols are plotted with a solid line to show that ...