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How the Poorest Americans Dropped Out of Politics

In the 2008 election, lower-income Americans voted at significantly lower rates than higher-income Americans. This was not, in itself, news. Just as in 2004, more than 60 percent of voters came from...

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Income Inequality Linked to Senate Standoffs

In the United States, the past quarter-century has been marked by two disturbing societal trends: increasing levels of both income inequality and political polarization. The rich are growing richer,...

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Gender Wage Gap Skewed By Survey Flaws

The wage gap between the sexes in America has been narrowing much faster than observers ever realized, although this revelation by a pair of University of Georgia researchers isn’t as good a tiding as...

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Ten Thousand “One-Percenters” Pay Zero Income Tax

No less an authority than the Internal Revenue Service reports that at least 10,080 households with gross incomes of over $200,000 paid nothing at all in income taxes in 2009. (OK, that doesn’t...

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