The State of Working America 12th Edition
Real income growth for different income percentiles diverged in the 1970s, with real incomes flattening in the 20th percentile and the median, and increasing in the 95th percentile
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- The basic contours of American incomes
- Family and household money income
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- Median family income as a metric of economic performance
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- A look at income by income fifths
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- Median family income by race, ethnicity, and nativity
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- Family and household money income
- The Great Recession and American incomes
- Impact by income group
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- Impact by race and ethnicity
- Income losses projected for years to come
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- Impact by income group
- Rising inequality of American incomes
- Family income inequality
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- Unequal growth of comprehensive household incomes suggests diverging well-being
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- Sharp rise in income inequality apparent in every major data source
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- The limited impact of taxes and transfers relative to market income
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- Factors behind the large rise in inequality of market incomes
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- Family income inequality
- How much did middle-income living standards actually rise between 1979 and 2007?
- Measuring living standards at the middle
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- Sources of income for the middle fifth
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- Income growth for the middle fifth has been driven largely by elderly households’ pension and transfer income
- Adjusting income for the truer contribution of health care transfers
- Disproportionate growth of transfers directed toward elderly households
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- The role of hours worked and educational upgrading in wage growth
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- Little of the growth of middle incomes can be attributed to a well-functioning economy
- Measuring living standards at the middle
