Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with professor Oded Galor, who wrote a book about the history of wealth inequality. Galor said ...

Re: “An excise tax on income is detrimental to Washington’s future” [Jan. 20, Opinion]: According to the Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy (6th Edition, 2018), the state of Washington has the ...

Editor’s Note: Errol Louis is the host of “Inside City Hall,” a nightly political show on NY1, a New York all-news channel. Less than a month into his new job, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is on ...

Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...

As we await the next Democratic debate, we can be sure that several candidates will offer soundbites touting crowd-pleasing "silver bullet" proposals to raise earnings and reduce inequality among US ...