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Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty

Growing disparities in life expectancy, E. Gould, EPI, 7/08

Official poverty measure undercounts the nation's poor, Bernstein, EPI, 7/08

"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

New Data Show Income Concentration Rose Again in 2006: Average Income Rose by $73,000 for Households in the Top 1%, Only $20 for Those in Bottom 90%, Aron-Dine, CBPP, 3/08

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

Slow Productivity Growth, Not Just Income Redistribution, to Blame for Lagging Wages, CEPR 4/07

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

An Ever Increasing Divide, Douglas & Sayeed, Ctr for Am. Progress 9/06

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

Basic family budget calculator, Eco. Policy Institute

New Data Show Extraordinary Jump in Income Concentration in 2004, Aron-Dine & Shapiro 7/06

Understanding Mobility in America, T. Hertz, American Univ, 4/06

Graduates Versus Oligarchs, Paul Krugman, NYT, 2/06 also
http://www.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

U.S. poverty rate rose in 2004, even as economy grew, D. Leonhardt NYT 9/1/05

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

Class Warfare--Fact and Fiction, Wasow, TCF, 3/03

Response to Times' editorial on report above

A Class Act, Ladd & Yeskel: [Response to Times & Wash Post articles], 6/05

Workers' Share of Economic Gains at post WWII Low, Corporate Share at Record High, CBPP 4/21/05

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

How the Pie is Sliced, by Edward N. Wolff 

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