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Potential Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Income Inequality
Potential Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Income Inequality Source: Brookings Institution The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will improve the well-being and incomes of Americans in the bottom fifth of...
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Report Reveals Wide Gap Between Successful and Struggling Communities,...
Report Reveals Wide Gap Between Successful and Struggling Communities, Reshaping American Landscape (PDF) Source: Demand Institute (The Conference Board and Nielsen) According to a comprehensive new...
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Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality
Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality Source: International Monetary Fund Fiscal policy is the primary tool for governments to affect income distribution. Rising income inequality in advanced and...
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Taxes and Inequality
Taxes and Inequality Source: Urban Institute This paper reviews historical trends in economic inequality and tax policy’s role in reducing it. It documents the various reasons why income inequality...
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Out of Reach 2014
Out of Reach 2014 Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition The signature finding of Out of Reach is the annual Housing Wage – the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a decent...
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Income Distributions, Inequality, and Poverty in Asia, 1992-2010
Income Distributions, Inequality, and Poverty in Asia, 1992-2010 Source: Asian Development Bank Institute In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2...
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Fact Sheet: Hunger by the Numbers in the African-American Community:...
Fact Sheet: Hunger by the Numbers in the African-American Community: Employment, Wages, and Fairness (PDF) Source: Bread for the World Ending hunger in America is possible. However, the return of...
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Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : Facts and Perceptions...
Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : Facts and Perceptions across People, Time, and Space Source: World Bank This book joins four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality...
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A Middle Class Job No Longer Supports a Middle Class Life
A Middle Class Job No Longer Supports a Middle Class Life (PDF) Source: Third Way With the economy recovering, Democrats are now rightly focused on building a long-term, post-recession narrative and...
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Middle-Skill Jobs Lost in U.S. Labor Market Polarization
Middle-Skill Jobs Lost in U.S. Labor Market Polarization (PDF) Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Employment in the United States is becoming increasingly polarized, growing ever more concentrated...
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What Do OECD Data Really Show About U.S. Taxes and Reducing Inequality?
What Do OECD Data Really Show About U.S. Taxes and Reducing Inequality? Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Critics of proposals to make the tax system more progressive or to take other...
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Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge
Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge Source: Economic Policy Institute Our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living...
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Bursting the Bubble: The Challenges of Working and Living in the National...
Bursting the Bubble: The Challenges of Working and Living in the National Capital Region (PDF) Source: The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis, The DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and The Maryland...
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Unhappy Cities
Unhappy Cities (PDF) Source: Harvard University (Glaeser et al) There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of declining cities...
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Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010
Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010 (PDF) Source: Quarterly Journal of Economics (via Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman, Paris School of Economics) How do aggregate...
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The Web of Wealth: Resiliency and Opportunity or Driver of Inequality
The Web of Wealth: Resiliency and Opportunity or Driver of Inequality (PDF) Source: Institute on Assets and Social Policy (Brandeis University) Families often help each other out financially. A brother...
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Strong Business Climate May Indicate More Inequality
Strong Business Climate May Indicate More Inequality (PDF) Source: Center for Economics & Public Policy (UC-Irvine) For decades, states have tried to attract businesses by touting their positive...
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How Increasing Income Inequality Is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, And...
How Increasing Income Inequality Is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, And Possible Ways To Change The Tide Source: Standard & Poor’s The topic of income inequality and its effects has been the...
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Gap Between Higher- and Lower-Wealth Households Widens, Census Bureau Reports
Gap Between Higher- and Lower-Wealth Households Widens, Census Bureau Reports Source: U.S. Census Bureau Median net worth increased between 2000 and 2011 for households in the top two quintiles of the...
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Improving Well-Being in the United States
Improving Well-Being in the United States Source: OECD Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having...
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