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The U.S. Census Bureau released Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates: 2017 on December 3. These data provide annual estimates of income and poverty for all U.S. counties and school districts. The Estimates show that U.S. counties have vast disparities of poverty rates, and most have the same or…
The Federal Reserve Board released its fifth annual Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households on May 22, based on a survey of more than 12,000 adults. Seventy-four percent of adults reported either doing okay financially or living comfortably in 2017, which is four percentage points…
A report by Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, The State of American Wages 2017, shows the growing inequality in earnings between high-wage and low-wage workers. From 2000 to 2017, the highest-wage workers (at the 95th percentile) saw their wages grow by 21.5%, while the lowest-wage…
The Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution released its annual report, Metro Monitor, the week of February 19. Metro Monitor tracks economic progress in the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. using an Inclusive Growth Index. The report shows widespread but uneven progress…