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Life Expectancy and Rising Income Inequality: Why the Connection Matters for Fixing Entitlements

October 23, 2012, Gary Burtless

Disappointing Numbers on Income and Poverty: What's Wrong With This Story?

September 17, 2012, Gary Burtless

Comments on the Material Well-Being of the Poor and the Middle Class since 1980

October 25, 2011, Gary Burtless

Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly

June 15, 2010, Gary Burtless

Should the IRS Offer Two Tax Schedules to Taxpayers?

March 30, 2010, Gary Burtless

Poverty and Income in 2008: A Look at the New Census Data and What the Numbers Mean

September 10, 2009

Poverty and Income in 2007: A Look at the New Census Data and What the Numbers Mean

August 26, 2008

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Health Care Consumption and the Relative Well-Being of the Aged

August 19, 2008, Gary Burtless

Income Progress across the American Income Distribution, 2000-2005

May 10, 2007, Gary Burtless

Globalization and Income Polarization in Rich Countries

April 2007, Gary Burtless

Poverty, Work, and Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective

February 13, 2007, Gary Burtless and Timothy M. Smeeding

The Erosion of Compensation for Federal Executives and Judges

September 20, 2006, Gary Burtless

Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded U.S. Growth?

2003, Gary Burtless

Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded U.S. Growth?

April 22, 2002, Gary Burtless

Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty

August 2001, Gary Burtless and Sarah Siegel

Growing American Inequality: Sources and Remedies

Winter 1999, Gary Burtless

Squeezed for Time? American Inequality and the Shortage of Leisure

Fall 1999, Gary Burtless

Effects of Growing Wage Disparities and Changing Family Composition on the U.S. Income Distribution

July 1999, Gary Burtless

Worsening American Income: Inequality: Is world trade to blame?

Spring 1996, Gary Burtless