Is Science Rigged for the Rich?
A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.
Income inequality
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike Hurts Workers
Increasing the cost of labor decreases the quantity of labor demanded.
The Best of Reason: Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?
A recent study shows that women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty," but their earnings rebound within a decade.
Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?
A recent study showed women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty" but their earnings rebound within a decade.
Are American Living Standards In Decline?
David Leonhardt and John Early debate stagnation, inequality, and how people feel about the economy.
This New York Charter School Is Helping Low-Income Students. But the City Is Holding It Back.
Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.
The World Could Soon Have Its First Trillionaire. Good!
A new report brings remarkable economic illiteracy to its focus on poverty and inequality.
On Economic Issues, the Populist Right and Left Share a Lot of Common Ground
That's bad news for Americans.
3 Economic Myths That Need To Die
As we step into 2024, it's crucial to adopt a more informed perspective on these dubious claims.
Yes, Heavy Regulation Hurts the Economy. Just Look at France.
We're often told European countries are better off thanks to big-government policies. So why is the U.S. beating France in many important ways?
Democrats Say They're Fighting Inequality. But Many of Their Policies Favor the Rich.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
California's Latest Tax-the-Rich Scheme: Electric Bills Based on Income
And it undercuts energy efficiency investments already made by millions of Californians.
Conservatives Pushing 'Common Good Capitalism' Sound a Lot Like Progressives
The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
The Club of Rome's New Malthusianism-Lite Report
No overpopulation doom but humanity is still at risk by overstepping planetary boundaries.
Wages Are Rising for Low-Skill Workers, Driving Down Poverty and Inequality
Plus: "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given" right, administrative state abuses, and more...
Meet the Students Pushing Back Against Socialism
"It's very easy for politicians to legislate freedom away," says Northwood University's Kristin Tokarev. "But it's incredibly hard to get back."
Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong
The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.
To Win the Speakership, Kevin McCarthy Had To Promise To Cut Spending. Good.
While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.
How Leftist 'Saviors' Ruined Latin America
The Atlas Network's Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region
Opposing Racism Doesn't Require Promoting Victimhood
The ideas put forward by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi are fundamentally "anti-black."
Elizabeth Warren Says People Are Struggling and Jeff Bezos Hasn't Pitched In Enough
Bezos pitched in by creating an online marketplace of cheap consumer goods that people can get delivered to their homes in two days flat.
Billionaires Spending Their Own Money To Go to Space Has Progressives Howling for a Wealth Tax
Private space companies' efforts are a boost to the government's own space programs, in addition to being objectively cool.
3 Myths About American Decline
Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and lack of economic mobility.
Scott Winship: Don't Believe Horror Stories About Fertility Rates, Income Inequality, and Economic Mobility
Americans have a reputation for being cockeyed optimists, but we're suckers when it comes to "declension narratives" about the fallen state of our world.
An Epidemic Big Enough to Accommodate Everyone's Wish List
Politicians of both major parties are using COVID-19 to advance their pre-existing policy agendas.
The Truth About Income Inequality
Should we be worried about the wealth amassed by the so-called 1 percent?
Populism Comes to Chile
Protesters say the cost of living is too high and wealth is distributed too unequally.
New Poll Asks Why People Support Socialism and Capitalism
Of those who reported a negative view of capitalism, 20 percent say it's exploitative or corrupt.
Elizabeth Warren's Polished Progressivism Dominated the First Democratic Debate
The Massachusetts senator pandered to the left—and so did everybody else, just not as expertly.
Stossel: Inequality Myths
Contrary to what most of the media says, the poor are getting richer and income mobility is high.
Stossel: Tax Myths
Rep Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive followers think taxing the rich at 70% will bring in lots of tax money. It won't.
Should Paul McCartney and Other Billionaires Be 'Abolished'?
Progressive populists have decided making a lot of money is prima facie evidence of criminality and that inequality is the cardinal sin of our age. Nope.
Why Do We Want To Be Poorer and Less Equal Than We Are?
New Census data showing record levels of income and no increase in inequality should be cause for celebration.
Our Greek Ancestors Took Sexual Inequality Seriously
Why can't we liberated moderns?
Worried About Economic Inequality? Get Rid of Occupational Licensing
State licensing laws for low-income professions limit access to jobs and restrict mobility for those who have them. That's a recipe for economic inequality.
Support for Redistribution Shaped by Compassion, Self-Interest, Envy
But not a desire for greater fairness.
Hate Income Inequality? Blame Intrusive Government Policies.
Government officials talk a good game about income inequality but impose policies that raise household costs, discourage employment, and kill opportunity.
