Rising food and housing costs have hit the lowest-income Americans the hardest in recent years.

He is right, up to a point. The concentration of world income in the wealthiest quintile (fifth) of the world's population is indeed shocking and cannot meet any plausible test of legitimacy. The ...

This dashboard shows the distribution of income at a country and regional ... while the black dashed curve measures the accumulated share of income earned. The SEDLAC (CEDLAS and WB) harmonization is ...

the Gini coefficient (see Chart 1). The Gini is a summary statistic that gauges the average difference in income between any two individuals from the income distribution. It takes the value zero if ...

The Growth Incidence Curve (GIC) captures graphically the annualized growth rate of per capita income for every percentile of the income distribution between two points in time. Over the last decade, ...

Rising prices across the US economy have impacted every American over the past few years, but the lowest-income households have faced the greatest burden. The dynamic is reflected in the chart ...