“Asking a little something out of people that are weathering this so well … is the right thing to do,” Councilmember Charles Allen tells DCist.

“Climate does not work in a vacuum,” says researcher Malini Ranganathan. “It works in unpredictable ways as a catalyst for already existing challenges.”

Black households now make a third the median income of white families.

Black and Hispanic residents in the greater D.C. area endure higher poverty rates than white and Asian residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Residential income inequality has gotten worse in most metropolitan areas across the country, finds a new report from the Pew Research Center.

Members of Congress don’t have to worry about gender-based pay disparities when it comes to their own salaries, but their staffs do. National Journal reports that when it comes to what staffers make, there are some big differences.

Ever since the Occupy Wall Street movement coined the protest slogan “We are the 99 percent!”, it has been bandied around as an admonition of the income inequality that has grown through the U.S. in recent years. But as anyone will tell you, the 99 percent isn’t a homogenous group, much less do all its members have the same interests, ideological inclinations or even incomes. Neither do members of the hated 1 percent, it seems.