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