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April 2005

Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption

David S. Johnson, Timothy M. Smeeding, Barbara Boyle Torrey

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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