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Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption
David S. Johnson
Assistant Commissioner, Consumer Prices and Price Indexes, Office of Prices
and Living Conditions, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: johnson.ds@bls.gov
Timothy M. Smeeding
Maxwell Professor, Public Policy, Syracuse University.
E-mail:
tmsmeed@maxwell.syr.edu
Barbara Boyle Torrey
Visiting Fellow, Population Reference Bureau.
E-mail:
btorrey@prb.org
Between 1981 and 2001, economic inequality among groups in the general population has increased in the United States; two measures of income and consumption are used to gauge relative well-being.
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