Sara Shaw with Occupy DC talks about a noon deadline for protesters to vacate two parks on Monday.
The United States economy is on the road to recovery, the White House said Friday, with stronger job growth expected this year.
Segregation of African-Americans in cities and towns across the United States has dropped to its lowest level in more than a century, according to a recent study.
President Obama delivered a State of the Union address Tuesday that was deeply saturated with the message of income inequality, a populist idea that the White House hopes will resonate on the campaign trail.
When President Obama delivers his third, and possibly final, State of the Union address Tuesday, will the economy be issue no. 1?
In a stunning achievement for unionists and Democrats, critics of the Wisconsin governor Scott Walker marshaled over a million signatures for a petition that has made it possible for Walker to lose his office in a recall election this spring. If so, that would be the first successful gubernatorial recall in Wisconsin history and only the third in that of the United States.
President Barack Obama will use Tuesday's State of the Union address to frame the message of his re-election campaign.
According to Mitt Romney, the nation's growing focus on income inequality is all about envy.
In yet another push to define the Democrats as defenders of the middle class, a top economic adviser for the Obama administration outlined Thursday the massive growth in income inequality and its ramifications on the nation. Alan Krueger, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, said that inequality is now causing an unhealthy division in opportunities and is posing a threat to economic growth. Economic mobility has decreased and the middle class has shrunk.
Kevin Smith used to think he led a comfortable middle-class existence that included a car and a home in a subdivision in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Andono Bryant shuffles across an old shuffleboard court to pick up groceries at the food co-op.
The rich have gotten richer, thanks to the stock market and the Bush tax cuts, a recent report has found.
Every politician in America declares concern for the economic crisis of the middle class. But to truly help the middle class, we must take on our nation's exploding economic inequality.
President Obama traveled to the heart of Republican Kansas on Tuesday, where he presented Americans with a choice: a "fair shot" with him, or a return to "you're on your own economics."
Americans are divided over whether churches and clergy have provided enough moral leadership on the country's economic problems, according to a recent survey.
It's no surprise that top earners in America make a heck of a lot more than middle- and lower-income Joes.
Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows the real effects on health and lifespan.
Think it takes a million bucks to make it into the Top 1% of American taxpayers?
From 1979 to 2007, average household income for the nation's top 1% more than tripled, while middle-class incomes grew by less than 40%, according to a new report from a research arm of Congress.
No one who is remotely familiar with American demographics should be surprised to hear that Anglo families, on average, are wealthier than black or Latino families. Nonetheless, the magnitude of the disparity revealed by a new study is staggering.
CNN's Zain Verjee talks with tourists outside Westminster Abbey as preparations for the Royal Wedding continue.
On a recent trip to England, I found that it was impossible to avoid seeing coasters, posters, books and other paraphernalia being sold to mark the royal wedding on April 29.
The chief of the International Monetary Fund is encouraging governments to focus on job creation and narrowing the gap between rich and poor.
The hot topic of income equality gets especially emotional now, at tax time, and will get even more so this year, with the latest IRS data showing what happened in the recession.
There's a growing income gap in America, but it's not necessarily between the rich and the poor.
Growing economic imbalances on a global scale and greater income inequality could fuel the next crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday.
President Hu Jintao's visit may be over, but the hype around China is not going away. As the country's economic boom continues, investors want to know how they can cash-in on this rapid growth.
Raghuram Rajan wasn't the only economist who warned of the financial crisis before it struck. He was, however, the sole one brave enough to make this prediction in front of Alan Greenspan at a 2005 Jackson Hole Conference devoted to celebrating the legacy of the once-seemingly infallible Fed chief.
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