Uncovering the roots and ongoing drivers of racial disparities in wealth and income mobility in the United States.

The 1,265 richest people hold $6.7 trillion in wealth — more than the bottom half of American households combined, new data shows.

The official poverty rate in the United States dipped slightly by half a percentage point last year to a historic low of 10.2%, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday.

Median household income rose to a record $87,460 in 2025, according to annual Census Bureau data on the financial well-being of Americans.

Our pipeline program combines research, funding, and exchange on global inequality. Find out more about projects and fellowships now.

High costs, political attacks take a toll as fewer students come, top scholars leave

Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Information Services, Level A Job Title Communications Specialist, Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality Department Fac...

Podcast Episode · The Inequality Podcast · July 27 · 58m

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine long-run differences in intergenerational occupational mobility between Black and White Americans using linked censuses and survey data from 1850 to 2021. We document two main results. First, shifts in mobility dynamics, most notably for the 1940–1950 cohort, reshaped occupational structures and reduced racial segregation. Second, new measures of intergenerational persistence reveal both bottlenecks and the enduring memory in the mobility system, offering new perspectives on the role of mobility in explaining the lack of convergence in Black-White occupational outcomes.

With a trillion dollars, Musk could pull hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty, pay off medical debt in the U.S., climate-proof the world, end world hunger and homelessness in the U.S

Original research examining the causes and consequences of inequality has earned six student scholars the 2026 Stone Center Thesis and Dissertation Awards. Originally launched as an Undergraduate Thes...

With SpaceX shares soaring 20 percent on their first day of trading, the world’s richest person crossed another milestone — one with 13 digits.