Economic inequality
As the United States recovers from the Great Recession, EPI’s research in this area focuses on the failed policies that decrease economic mobility while increasing levels of economic inequality and poverty.
All work on this topic
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How much can tax policy curb income inequality growth? Maybe a lot
June 14, 2013 | | Blog
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Building a Tax Code for Today
May 1, 2013 | | Blog
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What we read today
January 29, 2013 | Blog
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Are the job polarization data robust?
January 18, 2013 | | Blog
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Occupation employment trends and wage inequality: What the long view tells us
January 15, 2013 | | Blog
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Timing matters: Can job polarization explain wage trends?
January 14, 2013 | | Blog
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Job polarization in the 2000s?
January 14, 2013 | | Blog
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What we read today
January 8, 2013 | Blog
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More fiscal implications of a rising capital-share of income
January 2, 2013 | | Blog
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Inequality is not just about taxes and education
November 27, 2012 | | Blog
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The rise of the top 1 percent—not the same everywhere
October 24, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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What we read today
October 17, 2012 | Blog
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Barry Commoner, visionary environmentalist, teacher and activist dies at 95
October 1, 2012 | | Blog
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What we read today
September 25, 2012 | Blog
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One year of Occupy Wall Street
September 17, 2012 | | Blog
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Want to understand today’s inaction in solving economic problems? Read The State of Working America
September 12, 2012 | | Blog
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Inequality, exhibit A: Walmart and the wealth of American families
July 17, 2012 | | Blog
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As unions decline, inequality rises
June 6, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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Union decline and rising inequality in two charts
June 5, 2012 | | Blog
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Bernard ‘B’ Rapoport remembered
May 16, 2012 | | Blog
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How Romney can show support for working women
May 7, 2012 | | Blog
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CEO pay 231 times greater than the average worker
May 3, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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CEO pay and the top 1%: How executive compensation and financial-sector pay have fueled income inequality
May 2, 2012 | | Report
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With tax day upon us, file these numbers away
April 17, 2012 | | Blog
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It’s true, the Buffett Rule won’t lower unemployment by itself (but it’s still worth doing)
April 12, 2012 | | Blog
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Charles Murray’s failure by design
March 9, 2012 | | Blog
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High-scoring, low-income students no more likely to complete college than low-scoring, rich students
March 9, 2012 | | Blog
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The top 1% recoups lost ground
March 6, 2012 | | Blog
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Morals, money and book promotion
February 15, 2012 | | Blog
