The narrowing of the race gap and widening of the white class gap, write the authors, “can be explained almost entirely by the sharp fall in employment rates for low-income white parents ...

A handful of competitive races in the 2024 election are too close to call and could decide who takes the House majority and how wide Republicans will have a majority in the Senate. Republicans saw ...

Inequality in America is about more than the rich and the poor. Significant income gaps are present by age, by race, by occupation, by family type, by homeownership and more.

As African American Reno attorney Zelalem Bogale told me, “I fundamentally believe that you can't tell the story of America without telling the story of race in America.” ...

An ongoing series on race in America, examining the movement to end systemic racism and police brutality. Each week, we examine the dynamics of race in our nation; we assess how identity and ...

Median household income, adjusted for inflation, fell by $1,860 from 2007 to 2008. But look under the hood and you'll find great disparity among American families.

Every semester college students come into my classes knowing two incompatible things: that racism is repugnant, but that race is real.

Americans tend to have amnesia about this less-than-savory aspect of our history, as if race-mixing in America didn’t commence until 1967, when the Supreme Court said it was OK, in Loving v.

New York, California, and Kentucky host 75 percent of all American graded stakes. Can the American Graded Stakes Committee ...

An American Puzzle: Fitting Race in a Box Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years.