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Weekend reading: “Earnings inequality” edition
This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth.
FTC action addresses corporate conduct that harms U.S. workers
The Federal Trade Commission on July 30 settled charges against Your Therapy Source, LLC, its owner Sheri Yarbray, and Neeraj
Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, September 7–13, 2018
Worthy reads from Equitable Growth: Will McGrew in his latest blog post sends us to a new study, “The New
In an age of inequality, aggregate and mean economic statistics don’t tell us enough
The U.S. Census Bureau today released its report on “Income and Poverty in the United States for the year 2017.”
JOLTS Day Graphs: July 2018 Report Edition
Every month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases data on hiring, firing, and other labor market flows from the
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Further evidence that the tax cuts have not led to widespread bonuses, wage or compensation growth
One of the leading arguments for the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has been that it willDigging into the 2017 ACS: Improved income growth for Native Americans, but lots of variation in the pace of recovery for different Asian ethnic groups
Thursday’s release of 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) data allows us to fill in the blanks for racial and ethnicPoverty declined in most states in 2017
The American Community Survey (ACS) data released today shows that the decline in the national poverty rate was felt inHousehold incomes in 2017 stayed on existing trends in most states; incomes in 21 states are still below their pre-recession levels
The state income data for the American Community Survey (ACS), released this morning by the Census Bureau, showed that inGovernment programs kept tens of millions out of poverty in 2017
From 2016 to 2017, the official poverty rate fell by 0.4 percentage points, as household income rose modestly, albeit unevenly,
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Cheap Tricks With Economic Statistics: The Democratic Version
Dean Baker
Truthout, September 17, 2018How Congress Can End the War in Yemen
Mark Weisbrot
The New York Review of Books, September 14, 2018