Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-25-2011
Abstract
The enormous increase in economic inequality in the United States should play a central role in public discourse about the federal deficit. This essay reviews statistical evidence of trends in the distribution of income and wealth in the United States. The evidence demonstrates a dramatic increase in economic inequality. The gap between the rich and poor, and between the rich and the middle class, is today wider than at any other time in the past four decades.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Cohen, Stephen B., "Inequality and the Deficit" (2011). Georgetown Law Faculty Working Papers. 147.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/fwps_papers/147
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