We calculate that if the U.S. were to adopt the tax-and-transfer generosity of its peer countries, the cycle of American poverty could decline by more than one-third. [Annie Lowrey: The case for ...

A new report argues that one essential element to reviving the American dream in Ohio is strengthening and stabilizing family ...

The average American has personal wealth of about $393,000, according to the World Inequality Database. It might surprise you to learn that someone with that kind of net worth is not "wealthy ...