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

September 17, 2012, Gary Burtless

Poverty and Income in 2011: A Look at the New Census Data and What the Numbers Mean

September 12, 2012

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

October 25, 2011, Gary Burtless

Fighting Poverty with Cash Incentives: Can It Work?

July 12, 2010

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

September 10, 2009

The 2008 Statistics on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage

September 10, 2009, Gary Burtless

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

August 26, 2008

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

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

Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?

January 11, 2007, Gary Burtless

The Labor Force Status of Mothers Who Are Most Likely to Receive Welfare: Changes Following Reform

March 30, 2004, Gary Burtless

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

2003, Gary Burtless

Can the Labor Market Absorb Three Million Welfare Recipients?

Mar-00, Gary Burtless

Growing American Inequality: Sources and Remedies

Winter 1999, Gary Burtless

Squeezed for Time? American Inequality and the Shortage of Leisure

Fall 1999, Gary Burtless

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

Spring 1996, Gary Burtless