The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, is a summary measure of income inequality representing how income distribution varies compared with an equal outcome. States with the lowest Gini index figures, ...

With reformers relentlessly demanding that schools produce measurable outcomes, it’s curious that the Gini Index is rarely mentioned. I say that because what Italian statistician Corrado Gini wrote in ...

This is one of my pet little bugbears, the statistics that people use to measure poverty and inequality in the US. For the numbers that people tend to throw around are extraordinarily misleading. They ...

Throughout much of the country, it's the larger cities and metro areas that tend to have the steepest income inequality. One measure the Census Bureau computes to assess income inequality is the Gini ...

24/7 Wall St. The United States of America — the land of opportunity — has the fourth most uneven income distribution in the developed world. Chile has the most unequal distribution of income, while ...

SIX years ago, as a postgraduate researcher at Henley Business School - part of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom - Filipe Morais believed he had hit on a capital idea to promote income ...

It's no surprise that 'Occupy' is spreading throughout the country — the income gap between Americans is getting wider and it's most obvious in the South. Florida leads the trend with four of the ...

A recent article proposed a histogram-based method for estimating the Lorenz curve and Gini index from grouped data that did not use the group means reported by government agencies. When comparing ...