Emmanuel Saez

The National Academy of Sciences, or NAS, announced May 2 that seven UC Berkeley professors were selected to become members of the academy.

UC Berkeley economists recently launched Realtime Inequality, a web tool to track and visualize income and wealth inequality in the United States within hours of the data’s release.

The World Inequality Lab released a report Tuesday showing that the gap between the rich and the poor has continued to increase throughout the pandemic.

Two UC Berkeley professors played key roles in shaping parts of the financial policies of presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Teaching, researching and producing blueprints for tax policy that can potentially affect the entire nation — that is the daily life of two UC Berkeley professors who are currently working with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, to address the issue of wealth disparity in the United States.

Thomas Piketty, bestselling author and professor at the Paris School of Economics, admonished the contemporary surge in economic inequality before a packed UC Berkeley audience of over 300 people at an economics seminar Wednesday.

A new study conducted by UC Berkeley and Harvard researchers found that the chances of low-income children rising to higher income brackets as adults varies significantly across different metropolitan areas within the U.S., with the San Francisco Bay Area among the most upwardly mobile regions.