MARGARET WERTHEIM is the author of the cultural history "Pythagoras' Trousers." ON SATURDAY, hundreds of girls will flock to Caltech to celebrate the joys of science. Targeted at fifth- to ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

This chart is the one that convinces me that the increase in income inequality in the US is all about globalisation and about very little else. Further, as such it's simply not something that I can ...

An interesting set of some 40 charts depicting poverty levels, inequality, and income distributions covering 191 countries between 1970 and 2006 in a paper from MIT's Maxim Pinkovskiy and Columbia's ...

First, give credit to where it’s due: David Leonhart of The New York Times has produced a wonderful chart on income inequality in his article, “Our broken economy.” Taken from data compiled by Thomas ...

[caption id="attachment_22605" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Catania Sicily, Italy. Men with a lower level of education live shorter lives, on average, than their ...

The Umbrella Movement may be winding down, but the underlying economic tensions are not going away anytime soon. While the world has focused on Hong Kong's demand for democracy and universal suffrage, ...

Defenders of the economic status quo in America continue to assert that economic inequality (1) doesn't exist, (2) isn't as bad as you think, or (3) is actually good for everybody. That's despite ...

U.S. income inequality has exploded to levels not seen since the 1920s or perhaps even the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. At least that’s the oft-repeated claim from the Obama White House, ...

"The Debt Trap" lays out how President Johnson thought student loans would combat racial inequality. Johnson's Higher Education Act was part of his "War on Poverty," but student loans took a different ...

[caption id="attachment_22069" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Luxury yachts in Monaco: The surge in top incomes, combined with high savings, has resulted in growing ...