The gap between classes of wealth

The wealth gap

How U.S. household net worth is divided between wealth classes

Economic indicators

Key measures from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) service

Latest headlines

Inequality and economy news from linked publishers

The psychology of the gap

Peer-reviewed studies on how wealth and inequality shape perception, behavior, thinking and well-being

Each link goes to the published paper through its DOI. Research on social class and behavior is an active area of debate, and individual findings may be revised or hard to replicate, so read these as evidence, not settled fact.

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