Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. The Federal Reserve recently released new household data in two ...

As a generation, baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, have done very well for themselves. Blessed with the good fortune to have entered adulthood at the start of an era of exploding housing ...

The survey revealed that 80% of Americans — regardless of their income level — are worried about the affordability of everyday living costs. As a result, nearly half of survey respondents intend to ...

A few weeks ago, the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association held its annual symposium. The lectures spanned a variety of subjects and included dozens of presenters, but one of the ...

A combination of lower salaries for high-end earners and higher wages for lower-income jobs compresses Hawaii’s income wage gap, meaning the islands have a more equitable distribution of income, ...

Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong said that tokenization can level the financial playing field and provide access ...

The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...

NEW YORK – A strong performance in financial markets, particularly an outsize gain for the stock market in 2021, helped entrench existing trends of wealth inequality during the pandemic, new data ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

The FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid, asks about family income but not wealth -- resources like home equity, retirement savings or gifts from relatives. A new report argues that not ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Equitable, a leading financial services organization and principal franchise of Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH), today announced new findings from its quarterly survey ...