Overview : policy-driven inequality blocks living-standards growth for low- and middle-income Americans -- Income : already a "lost decade" -- Mobility : not offsetting growing inequality -- Wages : the top, and very top, outpace the rest -- Jobs : a function of demand -- Wealth : unrelenting disparities -- Poverty : the great recession adds injury to insult -- Appendix A : CPS income measurement -- Appendix B : wage measurement.
Summary
Examines the distribution of income and wealth in the U.S. and how the economy affects the living standards of the American people.