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Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty
The test of our progress is not whether we
add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether
we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin
Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address, January 1937.
World
Top Income Shares
Who
gained from income growth? interactive chart on inequality, 1917-2008
EPI
State of the
Dream, [Racial Wealth Divide] 2012
The
New American Economy: A Rising Tide that Lifts Only Yachts,
TCF 1/13
U.S.
lags behind peer countries in mobility, Gould,EPI
10/12
Income,
Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the US 2011,
US Densus 9/12
Census
Report Shows Middle Class Decline in 2011, TCF 9/12
How
Well Does TANF Proide IncomeSupportfor Poor Families?
CBPP 8/12
Did
Income Inequality Cause the Financial Crisis? Landy,
TCF 5/12
Striking
It Richer:The Evolution of Top Incomes in the US,
Saez, updated 3/12
Extreme
Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011, Edin
& Shaefer, NPC 2/12
Black
worker unemployment much higher than national average in 2011
How
Inequality Harms Societies, R. Wilkinson, TED video,
10/11
Who
are the 1% and What Do They Do for a Living? New Deal
2.0, 10/11
Trends
in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 & 2007,
CBO 10/11
Employment
Crisis Worsens for Black Women during the Recovery,
NWLC 8/11
What
We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: How
Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America's
Crippling Jobs Crisis, Kroll
Two
Years of Economic Recovery: Women Lose Jobs, Men Find Them,
Kochhar, 7/11
America’s
Tax System Is Not as Progressive as You Think, CTJ,
4/11
Nine
Pictures Of The Extreme Income/Wealth Gap, D. Johnson,
2/11
Great
Recession Hit Hard at America’s Working Poor:
Nearly 1 In 3 Working Families in United States are Low-Income,
Roberts et al, Winter 2011
Education
is Not the Cure for HighUnemployment or Income Inequality,
Mishel EPI, 1/11
Another
look at poverty in the Great Recession, Gould,
EPI, 1/11
Race,
Ethnicity and the Economy, EPI
Does
America Promote Mobility as Well as Other Nations?
Pew, 11/11
Americans
prefer Sweden's wealth distribution to ours, Ariely
& Norton
Income
inequality in dollars and cents, EPI, 11/10
Poor
healthcare may shorten American lives, U.S. ranks
49th in life expectancy Reuters 10/10
Poor
men have shorter lives, EPI 10/10
How
much do you really know about poverty? Take interactive
quiz to find out!
Why
Bad Things Happen to Unequal People, Pizzigati, 7/10
"Broke,
USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.–How the
Working Poor Became Big Business", Rivlin video, 7/10
Why
More Equality?, The Equality Trust, UK
A
long and persistent middle-class squeeze, EPI, 2/01
The
World’s Best Countries for Women,
N. Folbre, 3/10
Why
Welfare Reform Fails Its Recession Test, Edelman
Ehrenreich, Wash.P, 12/09
Half
of US kids depend on food stamps during childhood: study,
11/09
In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t
Close Racial Gap, Luo, NYT, 11/09
Divided
We Stand:Why Inequality Keeps Rising [OECD Countries]
2011
The
Middle Takes a Hit in 2008: Census Bureau Report
Shows Widespread Declines in Income and Health Insurance Coverage,
Fremstad, CEPR 9/09
Discrimination
and Black Male Unemployment, Austin, EPI, 6/09
The
City That Ended Hunger [Belo Horizonte, Brazil] F.M.
Lappé, 3/09
Basic
family budget calculator, Eco. Policy Institute
New
Estimates of Economic Inequality in America, 1959–2004,
Zacharias et al Levy, 4/09
Average
Income in 2006 up $60,000 for Top 1 Percent of Households,
Just $430 for Bottom 90 Percent: Income Concentration at Highest
Level Since 1928, CBPP, 10/08
Growing
disparities in life expectancy, E. Gould, EPI, 7/08
Official
poverty measure undercounts the nation's poor, Bernstein,
EPI, 7/08
Ending
Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program, Anderson and Pizzigati,
Chart Nation, 6/08
"Interplay of Politics and Law to Promote Health:
Improving Economic Equality and Health: The Case of Postwar Japan,"
Bezruchka, Namekata, & Sistrom, AJPH 4/08
Inequality: Bad for Your Health
An interview with Ichiro Kawachi, Harvard Sch/Public Health, $
&Sense, Jan/Feb 08
Hunger
& Homelessness Survey, US Conf. of Mayors, 12/07
Income share,
richest 10% for past 90 years ests Piketty &
Saez, Krugman
blog, 9/07
Who's
Grabbing All the New Pie?, Mishel, EPI, 8/07
Recent
Trends in Household Wealth in the U.S., Wolff, 6/07
Who
Counts as Poor? Dean Baker, 5/07
US
Economy Leaving Record Numbers in Severe Poverty,
T.Pugh, McClatchy, 2/07
Share
of National Income Going to Wages and Salaries at Record Low
in 2006: Share of Income Going to Corporate Profits at Record
High, CBPP 3/07
Economic
and Societal Costs of Poverty, Holzer, 1/24/07, House
Ways and Means Committee
Real Wages
Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity, Greenhouse
& Leonhardt, NYT 8/28/06
Wealth inequality
is vast and growing, Allegretto, EPI, 8/06
Understanding
Mobility in America, T. Hertz, American Univ, 4/06
Graduates
Versus Oligarchs, Paul Krugman, NYT, 2/06 also
http://archive.truthout.org/docs_2006/022706Z.shtml
Lies,
Damn Lies and Poverty Statistics: How an archaic measurement keeps
millions of poor Americans from being counted, Christopher
Moraff, 2/06
A
Poverty Of Understanding Nancy Cauthen, 9/05
New
Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! by Bill Quigley
Growing
Gulf Between Rich and Rest of US, H. Sklar, 10/05
Death
and Taxes (II): Wealthiest estates account for most of revenue
generated by estate tax
Richest
are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind, 6/05
A
Class Act, Ladd & Yeskel: [Response to Times
& Wash Post articles], 6/05
Death
of Horatio Alger, Paul Krugman
Why
the Estate Tax Is not "Double Taxation",
Carlitz & Friedmand, 6/05
What
New CBO Data Indicate about Long-Term Income Distribution Trends,
Isaac Shapiro, 3/05
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