Purely geographical maps don’t tell the full story of cities. While they might lay out street grids, label boulevards and avenues, and demarcate buildings, they don’t expose the deeper currents that ...

While justifying the disproportionate amount of stop-and-frisks in poor neighborhoods, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the Daily News that 97% of all shooting victims in NYC in 2012 "were black or ...

At the second presidential debate, one of the town hall participants posed a question to the candidates that surprised some journalists: “In what new ways to you intend to rectify the inequalities in ...

The US is known as the land of equal opportunity, but as it turns out that thanks to income inequality, some parts have more upward mobility than others.

Wealth and income inequality are growing areas of concern. A report from Oxfam found that 82% of all wealth created throughout the world in 2017 went to the top 1%. 8 individuals literally own as much ...

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The big story last week was the census report on the fall-off in Americans' incomes. The New York Times' David Leonhardt called it a "lost decade" with 2008 median household income of $50,303 falling ...