What Explains Median Wages Rising?
New Census data show rising incomes and shrinking poverty. But it’s not quite time to bust out the champagne.
Income Distribution
Indiana: A Snapshot of Inequality
Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence calls Indiana ‘a state that works.’ The facts tell a different story. Let me start with a few facts that should “afflict the comfortable”...
Poorer Than Their Parents
Young people are set to inherit the unequal economic heritage of their parents. Read the full article at US News and World Report. The promise of market economics is supposed...
America’s Working Poor
A new study dramatizes the struggles of low-wage workers and provides a precise analysis of who these workers are and where they live.