Encounters with the criminal justice system can depress wages for the entirety of a career. Black and Latino Americans suffer these consequences most acutely.

Here’s how structural problems and partisan meddling give White, rural and affluent voters a much bigger voice in the political system.

The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted devastating effects on the U.S. economy, with job losses  especially concentrated among women, minorities, and low-wage workers. Economists have described the un…

Black young adults hold 10.4% less wealth on average than their white counterparts due to student debt, according to Fenaba Addo's research.

(Hint: It’s not by tweeting “Black Lives Matter.”)

"America's student debt crisis is a civil rights crisis," according to a new analysis of student borrower data from New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Recent research indicates little progress since the Truman administration.

Researchers found that most facial-recognition algorithms exhibit “demographic differentials” that can worsen their accuracy based on a person’s age, gender or race.