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Title: United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially. Still, by some measures, income inequality has increased as well. This has been the subject of contested public policy and political discourse. The question still stands: How can we better articulate the nuanced changes in American incomes? It is difficult to have conversations about income inequality without an agreed-upon set of terms, metrics, and concepts. United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, edited by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, examines the trends in income growth in the United States and explores various measures of income, including market, post-tax, and post-transfer income. Within each chapter, distinguished experts explain how income and wealth--and the way we measure t...

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Authors: Furchtgott-Ruth, Diana

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publisher Location: New York, N.Y.

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Poverty and Welfare

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