Inequality and Poverty
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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Nostalgic for the Gatsby era? (Surprise! You’re living in it.)
May 20, 2013 | | Blog
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The best thing for mom this Mother’s Day: a raise
May 10, 2013 | | Blog
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Building a Tax Code for Today
May 1, 2013 | | Blog
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Raising the minimum wage could improve public health
March 6, 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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What we read today
January 14, 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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What we read today
December 19, 2012 | Blog
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If you’re writing about the ‘fiscal cliff,’ you need to read The State of Working America
December 18, 2012 | | Blog
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What we read today
December 17, 2012 | Blog
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Inequality is not just about taxes and education
November 27, 2012 | | Blog
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New Census poverty data shows what is at stake in the fiscal debate
November 14, 2012 | | Blog
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Two in five female-headed families with children live in poverty
November 14, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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The rise of the top 1 percent—not the same everywhere
October 24, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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Schumer’s spot on: 1986 is the wrong model for tax reform
October 23, 2012 | | Blog
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What we read today
October 17, 2012 | Blog
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Remembering Paul Wellstone
October 12, 2012 | | Blog
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U.S. lags behind peer countries in mobility
October 10, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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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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2011 American Community Survey shows continuing hardship throughout the U.S.
September 20, 2012 | | Blog
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Women much more likely to earn poverty-level wages
September 19, 2012 | | Economic snapshot
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Romney’s regressive socioeconomic philosophy is nothing new
September 19, 2012 | | Blog
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One year of Occupy Wall Street
September 17, 2012 | | Blog
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Hispanic and single-black-father families see declines in poverty
September 12, 2012 | | Blog
