The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.

Gilded Age inequality vs. today’s inequality. ... One of the great issues of the Gilded Age was the gold standard. Political campaigns were fought over whether the standard should be based on ...

As economic inequality and wealth concentration rise, the U.S. is entering a new era of support for workers' rights, reminiscent of the Gilded Age.

Many prognosticators describe our current era as a “Second Gilded Age,” a term I’ve come to embrace myself.It captures the reality of the moment: The deep income inequality. The coziness between the ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of ...

Economic inequality and the Gilded Age. By the late 19th century, America had become a nation of extremes.

The phrase “the gilded age” is borrowed from Mark Twain’s 1873 novel of the same name, a political satire about the materialism and corruption of the years following the Civil War.