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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.
Who
gained from income growth? interactive chart on inequality, 1917-2008
EPI
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
When
Poverty and Unemployment Are Misdiagnosed, Mahar
5/11
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
Another
look at poverty in the Great Recession,
Gould, EPI, 1/11
Race,
Ethnicity and the Economy, EPI
International
Comparisons of Economic Mobility, Isaacs, Brookings
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
Growing
Unequal? : Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries,
[US] 10/08
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
Share of top 0.01%
of income receivers [2007] exceeds 1920's Saez via
Krugman
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
The
Middle Class at Risk, M. LesmerisesTCF, 10/07
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
The
American Middle Class in International Perspective,
B. Wasow, TCF 10/06
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
Building
A Real "Ownership Society" Brown, Kuttner,
& Shapiro, TCF,
7/12/2005
Is
Inequality a Concommitant of Rapid Growth?, Delong
6/05;
TCF--Wasow
Richest
are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind,
6/05
A
Class Act, Ladd & Yeskel: [Response to Times
& Wash Post articles], 6/05
Always
Low Wages. Always Paul Krugman, 5/13/05
America’s
Hard-to-Climb Ladder, Bernard Wasow, Century Fdtn,
5/05
Death
of Horatio Alger, Paul Krugman
Why
the Estate Tax Is not "Double Taxation",
Carlitz & Friedmand, 6/05
Doubly
Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap, Meizhu Lui
The
New American Economy: A Rising Tide that Lifts Only Yachts,
Wasow, TCF 4/04
What
New CBO Data Indicate about Long-Term Income Distribution Trends,
Isaac Shapiro, 3/05
Class
Warfare--Fact and Fiction, Wasow, TCF, 3/03
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