Why income inequality is holding back economic growth, in one chart
April 05, 2018 at 16:16 PM EDT
By many measures, the U.S. economy is doing well: the labor market is strong, monetary policy remains largely accommodative for the moment, and corporate America is expected to post its best quarter of profit growth in seven years. Despite that, economic growth has been fairly tepid, and it could be because any improvements in the economy are being unequally distributed.