An inequality can be represented graphically as a region on one side of a line. Key fact Inequalities that use \(\textless\) or \(\textgreater\) symbols are plotted with a dashed line to show that the ...

Defenders of the economic status quo in America continue to assert that economic inequality (1) doesn't exist, (2) isn't as bad as you think, or (3) is actually good for everybody. That's despite ...

Since World War II, inequality in the U.S. has gone through two, dramatically different phases. In the first phase, known as the great compression, inequality fell. Incomes rose for people in the ...

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 ...

Branko Milanovic is a World Bank economist and development specialist. He's currently a visiting presidential professor at CUNY's Graduate Center and a senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study ...

Goldman Sachs paid its CEO David Solomon $35 million in 2021, the investment bank announced recently. The handsome sum— a reflection of the fact that the investment bank netted nearly $60 billion ...

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 ...