Sites Related to Income Inequality
Sites Related to Income Inequality
Several other federal agencies publish data on income inequality.
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Internal Revenue Service – Statistics of incomeSummary statistics based on a sample of individual income tax returns.
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Bureau of Economic Analysis – Personal incomeThis interactive application makes it easier to access and use BEA national, international, regional and industry statistics.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics – Consumer expendituresThis report includes integrated data from the Diary and Interview portions of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) including one-page data tables.
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Congressional Budget Office (CBO): Income DistributionCBO regularly analyzes the distribution of household income before and after government transfers and federal taxes.
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Joint Economic Committee: Income Inequality in the United StatesThis report examines trends regarding poverty, the middle class, income inequality and economic mobility in the United States.
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U.S. Department of Commerce: Middle Class in AmericaThis report examines how two-parent two-child families and single-parent two-child families at different income levels might achieve a middle class lifestyle.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics: A look at pay at the top, the bottom, and in betweenThis Spotlight on Statistics looks at measures of earnings and wages and examines how these measures have changed over time.
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<br>Data and visualizations are also available from several international organizations.
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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)Income inequality in OECD countries is at its highest level for the past half century.
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World BankFree and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
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Luxembourg Income Study CenterLIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from a large number of countries.
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