For example, 0.4% of whites had incomes of $125,000 to $127,499 in 2016. There is a “spike” in the shares at the highest category ($200,000 or more) because the distribution is top coded at that ...

“For example, according to Brazilian ... the bottom half of the world’s income distribution has been gaining tremendously: The above chart, from Our World in Data, shows the decline in extreme ...

It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality. The line on the chart (which we have recreated ...

Safe-haven investments like certificates of deposit, money market funds, and U.S. Treasuries offer a fraction of the income they did prior to the 2007-09 global financial crisis. For example ...

Income and wealth inequality continue to ... distributions were far more equitable than the actual wealth distribution. This chart, based on data from the Equality of Opportunity Project, shows ...

This chart by Pavlina Tcherneva, an economics professor at Bard University, shows a simple yet shocking trend of how bad income inequality has gotten. The graphic illustrates the distribution ...

So let’s not tax income; let’s instead tax inequality ... which I’ve put into chart form: What’s fascinating here is that in a survey of Americans, fewer people think that a household ...

I’ll start with an updated chart from Emmanuel ... they start out in the overall income distribution and where they end up. In doing this, it is possible, for example, to work out the ...

When you write about the economy every day for a living, you can start feeling numb toward charts about income inequality. After all, the story doesn’t change much week to week, and usually ...

the share of income accruing to the top of the income distribution increases — that is, income disparities increase.” This chart shows how the percentage of income flowing to the top 0.1 ...