Want more money in your pocket? Your paycheck matters more than any investment portfolio. In A Nutshell Researchers tracked ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University. A potential academic contretemps between some giants in the ...

Your work usually determines whether you manage to earn a better income compared to people around you. But your work earnings rarely determine when your income falls. Economists call it income ...

The median family income of a student from Bennett is $47,900, and 8.3% come from the top 20 percent. About 3.9% of students at Bennett came from a poor family but became a rich adult. A new study, ...

A new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) offers new proof that many of America's poorest citizens are doing better than they were 14 years ago. Between 1991 and 2005, the average annual ...

Here is the link to the full Treasury study “Income Mobility in the U.S. From 1996 TO 2005” and here is an excerpt: Using three different measures of income mobility that track changes in the incomes ...

A new study confirms what I’ve been reading for a while now: income mobility in America hasn’t changed much in the past few decades. We continue to trail most other advanced economies, but at least ...

One reason so many Americans tolerate inequality is their belief that it’s not a permanent condition. Yes, you might start out life without a lot of money. But if you work hard and play by the rules, ...

"Young people are exploited!" "Income mobility is down!" "Poor people are locked into poverty!" Those are samples of popular nonsense peddled today. Leftist economist Thomas Piketty's book Capital in ...

In a recent article titled “Why President Obama Is Wrong on Inequality,” Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey points to an interesting 2009 article by two economists from the Office of Tax Analysis ...

"Young people are exploited!" "Income mobility is down!" "Poor people are locked into poverty!" Those are samples of popular nonsense peddled today. Leftist economist Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in ...

North Carolina performed best in the categories of entrepreneurship, growth, and rule of law. The study suggests that ...