Economic Inequality

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• Achieving the American Dream 

• Poverty Increases and Median Income Declines for Second Consecutive Year

• Pathbreaking CBO Study Shows Dramatic Increases in Income Disparities in 1980s and 1990s- An Analysis of the CBO Data CBPP

• The Latest IRS Data on After-Tax Income Trends CBPP

• How the Pie is Sliced
  by Edward N. Wolff, (The American Prospect no. 22 (Summer 1995): 58-64)
• Black-White Earnings Inequality: Employment Rates, and Incarceration
• Bruce Western and Becky Pettit (November 1999)
• Asset Ownership (Census Bureau)
• The Rich, the Right, and the Facts
  by Paul Krugman, (The American Prospect no. 11 (Fall 1992): 19-31)
• Growing Income Inequality: Roots and Remedies
  by Edward M. Gramlich and Mark Long abstract
• Declining Economic Opportunity in America
  by Isabel V. Sawhill and Daniel P. McMurrer abstract
• American Dreams and Discontents: Beyond the Level Playing Field  
  by Isabel V. Sawhill and Daniel P. McMurrer (September 1996) abstract
• Are Justice and Inequality Compatible?  
  by Isabel V. Sawhill and Daniel P. McMurrer (October 1996) abstract
• The State of Working America 1996-97  
  Economic Policy Institute, 1996.
• The Crusade That's Killing Prosperity
  by Lester Thurow, The American Prospect no. 25, (March-April 1996): 54-59.
• Government Benefit Programs Cut Poverty Nearly In Half Last Year, Setting A Record For Poverty Reduction  
  by Wendell E. Primus, October 1996
• When Do They Settle Down? Young People in the U.S. Labor Market
  A National Summit on the Future of Work in Australia, May 23, 1996, The Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney
• The Drum Major Institute Injustice Index: "Rich Man's Justice, Poor Man's Justice
• Amount spent in 1995 by O.J. Simpson on his criminal defense: $6 million
• Amount spent per capita providing poor Americans with legal services every year: $10

Census Bureau Data

• Asset Ownership of Households: 1995
  Asset Ownership of Households: 1993
  Asset Ownership of Households: 1998 and 2000