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View Resource Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends

A new report released on January 18 from the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reveals that, despite the strong economy, income disparities in most states are significantly larger in the late 1990s than they were in the 1980s. In all but four states, income disparities between high- and low-income families increased, and in 45 states, "the gap between the...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/pulling...
View Resource Pulling Apart: State Income Trends Part 1, 12/16/97

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a research think-tank, has released "Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends" which analyzes the income trends in each of the 50 states. The analysis was conducted using data from the Census Bureau, and the report concludes that income disparities has risen over the last two decades and are "significantly greater than they were at the...

https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/archive/pa-1.htm