. Indebtedness, which fell substantially during the late 1990s, skyrocketed in the early 2000s. Among the middle class, the debt-to-income …

-aughts; among the middle class, the debt-to-income ratio reached its highest level in 24 years. The concentration of investment …

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The …. We find that changes in base income, taxes, and income from nonhome wealth during the Great Recession produced declines …

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

capabilities (such as education and health status) may operate differently on growth than inequality in wages and income. This …

; income distribution ; leisure ; gender …

Over the last two decades, those at the bottom of the income scale have seen their incomes stagnate, while those at the … for those at the bottom of the income scale? Will ARRA reverse the upward trend in inequality that we have seen in the … creation, ARRA is likely to have little impact on overall income inequality, or on the income gaps between relatively …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … proposed in the literature. Two types of approaches are considered: those that look at income and wealth separately when … argue that the higher correlation between income and wealth in the United States contributes to explaining the greater …

. -- shared societies ; economic inclusion ; institutions ; economic growth ; income distribution …