Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Japanese stock index suffers worst day since 1987 as global rout intensifies
    • Everyone calm down
    • Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights
    • UK universities regulator plans for looming insolvencies
    • Why global investors find it so easy to sell Japan
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights
    • UK universities regulator plans for looming insolvencies
    • Fresh violence flares after dozens of rioters arrested across England
    • Why are the far right rioting in England?
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • SocGen to sell UK and Swiss private bank units for €900mn
    • Widespread boycotts in Muslim countries hammer western brands
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • Novo Nordisk spends record amounts on research to fend off weight-loss rivals
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Lloyds hires Amazon Web Services executive as its new AI chief
    • A rollercoaster earnings season for tech stocks
    • Brain implant made from graphene is set to begin UK clinical trial
    • Elliott says Nvidia is in a ‘bubble’ and AI is ‘overhyped’
    • Big Tech groups say their $100bn AI spending spree is just beginning
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Japanese stock index suffers worst day since 1987 as global rout intensifies
    • Everyone calm down
    • Why global investors find it so easy to sell Japan
    • Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines
    • Woodside to buy OCI Global’s ‘blue’ ammonia project for $2.3bn
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Why global investors find it so easy to sell Japan
    • The power of choosing your words wisely
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • The volatile far right on UK streets is becoming more difficult to label
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Cities on screen: Choose Edinburgh
    • Tesla attempt to save Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package gets sceptical reception
    • ‘Gone are the days of taking a phone call in the open’: why office pods are everywhere
    • How Roger Federer rode the ‘beautiful wave’ of tennis for 24 years
    • Spanish business school to start awarding US degrees
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • What and how to read
    • Photobombing de Gaulle: how a forgotten picture rewrites the history of WWII
    • Cities on screen: Choose Edinburgh
    • One of Scandinavia’s buzziest fashion brands is ready to scale
    • Could music win it for Kamala Harris?
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

US inequality

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast32 min listen
    Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles

    New research questions the rate of income inequality in the US

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    Even a PhD isn’t enough to erase the effects of class

    A new study shows that it plays out differently to barriers based on race or gender

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Graduation Cap platform, some graduates standing on top, some climbing up with a helping hand
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    US economy
    How the ‘strong’ US economy feels for poorer Americans, in five charts

    That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    US millionaires support Biden’s plan to tax super-wealthy, poll shows

    President seeks to fight Trump on economy with progressive plan to make the very rich pay more

    President Joe Biden waves as he walks to board Air Force One
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Trump called Milwaukee a ‘horrible city’. Can Biden capitalise in Wisconsin?

    Two candidates are neck and neck in pivotal state that could help decide the US presidency

    Democratic billboard ad showing quote from Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    What swing state Michigan’s boom says about the Biden economy

    Not everyone is benefiting equally from the revival under way in a crucial 2024 election battleground

    A montage of photos of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; downtown Detroit; and Ashley Gilbert Winfrey
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Ruchir Sharma
    Biden’s challenge runs deeper than ‘bad vibes’

    The flaws in the economic system are real, and better ‘messaging’ won’t fix them

    Joe Biden on stage
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    How to fix America’s loneliness crisis

    Solving the issue needs to be a bipartisan effort

    Illustration of a man sitting on a window sill in a room that is empty except for a chair, where the walls are painted in the US flag stripes and the view from the window are the stars on the flag
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    FT WealthRhymer Rigby
    Is it a good thing for the very affluent to live in rich enclaves?

    The wealth surrounding you may make you less happy if it means you perceive your status as lower

    A woman in sunglasses walks past a row of colourfully painted houses in London’s Notting Hill
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    America’s robust national economy hides its weak spots

    Economic realities vary widely across US households and regions

    A farmer leans on the tailgate of his pickup truck
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Bibi Hidalgo
    How to actually help America’s minority-owned businesses

    Expanding access to wealth starts with an honest question: who is getting the contract?

    A bookseller in Eso Won Books in Los Angeles
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The troubling decline in the global fertility rate

    Developed economies need to be better prepared for a drop in younger workers

    A mother and a baby
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
    Growing income inequality is driving public mistrust

    It is time to ask tough questions about wealth and income concentration

    Snow covers rooftops on the first day of the World Economic Forum annual meeting held in Davos
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    John Burn-Murdoch
    Does the American dream foster inequality?

    New research shows US citizens are alone among wealthy western nations in being largely unmoved by income disparities

    Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office of the White House
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    Chris Giles
    What if US income inequality has not risen?

    New research turns old certainties on its head and raises profound questions about American society

    A photo of the Versace store on Fifth Avenue in New York
  • Friday, 13 October, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    How disadvantage became deadly in America

    The poorest in the US suffer early deaths in a way that their other developed world counterparts do not

  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    The Two-Parent Privilege — we need to talk about kids with single parents

    Melissa S Kearney looks at how the startling shift affecting American families disadvantages children and exacerbates inequality

  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Pinelopi Goldberg
    How to get industrial policy right — and wrong

    Trade restrictions and preferential treatment of US companies will hurt the people America’s new approach is meant to help

    The interior of a shuttered factory
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Markets InsightMichael Pettis
    Why US debt will continue to rise

    The government must eliminate downward pressure on demand by reversing policies that favour income inequality

    A pedestrian passes the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    US cities must beware the ‘donut effect’

    Many of America’s urban centres are struggling to lure workers back post-pandemic, but the suburbs are thriving

    Illustration of a donut with pink icing and sprinkles with rundown buildings in the hole in the middle and shiny buildings around the ring
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    LexPhilanthropy
    Harvard/Griffin: skewed distribution of endowments favours educational elite Premium content

    Studies show relatively few students of modest means enrol at top US institutions

    Harvard University buildings seen through trees and parkland, with a group of four students walking in the foreground
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Matthew Desmond: ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

    The sociologist believes the US is stacked against the poor and decisions by the rich are to blame

    Matthew Desmond
  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    News in-depthUS employment
    Black Americans ‘trade up’ to higher-paying jobs amid labour market squeeze

    Job seekers from minority groups are taking advantage of a pandemic-related boom in areas such as transportation

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Chris Giles
    The globalisation elephant has left the room

    The latest data indicates a clear link between trade integration and falling global inequality

    Customers shop at Haikou International Duty Free City Complex
  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    Joan Williams
    How you treat the ‘non-elite’ is key to beating populism

    In Pennsylvania, John Fetterman bridged the ‘representation gap’ between the concerns of elite and middle-class voters

    John Fetterman arrives onstage at a watch party during the midterm elections on November 8
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In