Ezra Klein Archive: Inequality
What Americans think about income inequality in one graph
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Ezra Klein
| February 22, 2011; 2:29 PM ET |
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Charts and Graphs, Inequality
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'The Great Stagnation'
Book reviews tend to force the author to combine two questions that don't go very well together. The first is, "Should you read this book?" The second is, "What do I think about the thesis of this book?" So in...
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Ezra Klein
| January 31, 2011; 9:02 AM ET |
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Books, Inequality
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Inequality among the rich in one graph and one thought experiment
Catherine Rampell asked the hardworking folks at the Tax Policy Center to estimate the paychecks that correspond to different income percentiles. In other words, if you're the 37th percentile, or the 85th, how much are you making? Then she graphed...
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Ezra Klein
| January 12, 2011; 1:44 PM ET |
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Income inequality and the poor
There might be questions about the relationship between income inequality and median incomes, but according to Lane Kenworthy, there's no real question about the relationship between income inequality and low-end incomes: There isn't one. If we look across the rich...
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Ezra Klein
| January 11, 2011; 1:56 PM ET |
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Understanding inequality, Part II
In response to this post, Brookings's Gary Burtless wrote in with some helpful comments on inequality and median incomes that I want to quote at length. Standard disclaimer: I've made light edits for space and clarity. I asked what made...
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Ezra Klein
| January 4, 2011; 5:40 PM ET |
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Some thoughts -- and graphs -- on inequality and income
I've been spending some time thinking about income inequality for a piece I'm writing. As part of it, I made this graph comparing trends in inequality -- as measured by the share of pre-tax income that goes to the top...
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Ezra Klein
| January 3, 2011; 11:24 AM ET |
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Economy, Inequality
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