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Measuring Income Inequality and Economic Mobility


Abstract: Measures of income inequality and economic mobility have been gaining the public's and policymakers' attention in recent years. This is due, in part, to a long-run trend of increasing income inequality in the United States since 1979.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Part of Series: Econ Focus

Publication Date: 2016

Issue: 1Q

Pages: 32-35