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Occupational divide
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Who's on welfare?
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Making the numbers
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Trends in U.S. family income mobility, 1967–2004
Much of America?s promise is predicated on the existence of economic mobility?the idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobility?changes in individual families? real incomes over time?is one indicator of the degree to which the eventual economic wellbeing of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to year since the mid-1970s, raising questions about whether long-term income is also increasingly ...
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Issues in economics
Economists have begun to take seriously the information they gain by actually asking people how they feel about inflation, unemployment, and other policy issues.
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When the Economy Goes South
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Kindness of neighbors: how much can we depend on charity?
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What a waste: the generation and disposal of trash imposes costs on society and the environment: should we be doing more?
In 1987, the Mobro 4000 garbage barge from Long Island focused public attention on trash. Have we disposed of the problem?
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Who should be in charge?
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Getting secure