addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …

redistribution patterns observed since the 1980s, and the immediate crisis-related challenges, including a much greater need for … common finding that redistribution reduces income inequalities by much less in the US than in much of Europe. Since more … redistributive tax-transfer systems tend to be more effective as a backstop to widening earnings gaps, redistribution in the US was …