Income inequality Coverage

Retirement is increasingly out of reach for lower middle class

Lower middle class Americans nearing retirement have steadily lost ground financially over the past two decades.

Where are the middle-class neighborhoods?

A smaller share of families are living in middle-class neighborhoods, places where incomes are typically within 25% of the regional median.

Sophie Kasakove and Robert Gebeloff, New York Times

As housing market booms, Rocky Mount looks to take on inequality in home ownership

While the housing market in Nash and Edgecombe County is hitting record highs, not everyone in Rocky Mount is seeing that success.

Keenan Willard, WRAL Eastern North Carolina reporter

Durham city leaders consider guaranteed basic income program

Durham City Council is one step closer to securing funds to be a part of a guaranteed basic income pilot program.

Kirsten Gutierrez, WRAL reporter

Durham among shortlist of cities to pilot guaranteed basic income

Durham is on the short list of cities that could be part of a guaranteed basic income pilot program. It was announced in Thursday's City Council work session.

Lora Lavigne, WRAL Durham reporter

Pandemic increases pace of worsening income and wealth inequality

Growing income inequality had been an issue in the United States for quite some time, but the pandemic and its economic fallout only exacerbated that issue in 2020.

Adam Owens, WRAL reporter

How income inequality worsened in 2020

Growing income inequality had been an issue in the United States for quite some time, but the pandemic and its economic fallout only exacerbated that issue in 2020.

Is it basketball ... or socialism?

While nobody was looking, the NBA figured out how to fight inequality.

Duke prof: Coronavirus revealed systemic racial inequality

Black Americans disproportionately have suffered from the health and economic fallout during the coronavirus outbreak. Some of those disparities are a result of decades of inequality that stem from the post-Civil War era.

Are half of Congress members millionaires versus only 1% of Americans?

With income inequality a persistent hot topic in the Democratic presidential primary, it's not surprising that a familiar meme is circulating on Facebook claiming that Congress is far richer than the public.

Fact check: How many millionaires are in Congress, compared to rest of US?

With income inequality a persistent hot topic in the Democratic presidential primary, it's not surprising that a familiar meme is circulating on Facebook claiming that Congress is far richer than the public.

Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reporter

Declining incomes, rising poverty seen in NC's rural areas

While it's been a strong economic year in the Triangle, a new report shows that's not the case in many parts of North Carolina.

Report: Household income in NC no better than before recession

While it's been a strong economic year in the Triangle, a new report shows that's not the case in many parts of North Carolina.

Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol Bureau chief

New report shows NC median income lower now than in 2000

A new report shows the booming economy in the Triangle isn't reflected in the rest of the state, where the median real income in North Carolina is still lower than it was in the year 2000.

Local company wants to help women CEOs

There are a record number of women CEO's at Fortune 500 companies -- and women only make up 6.6 percent. One local company, Mettacool, wants to help companies retain women and treat them well while they're there.

School bans expensive coats to promote equality

A British school has banned well-known, expensive brands of coats so that poorer students would not feel left out.

Trump's expanding economy mostly benefits wealthy communities

Economic growth has accelerated since President Trump took office. But the growth under Trump has not helped everywhere. It has lifted wealthy areas, like St. Charles County, which were already growing before he took office. And it has left the most economically troubled swaths of the country, the ones that Trump promised to revitalize, waiting for their share of the good times.

Campbell Robertson and Jim Tankersley, New York Times