inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …

This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period … during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply … poverty increase was muted. Tax and transfer policies lowered inequality and poverty, but those policies were not equal across …