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Americans Care about Inequality When It Limits Opportunity
Leslie McCall, April 2013
Inequality & the Middle Class, Media and Public Opinion
How the Wealthiest of America's Rich Make Their Money
Alexander Hicks, January 2013
Inequality & the Middle Class
When Easy Credit Replaces Wage Increases, Prosperity is Fragile and America's Middle Class Suffers
Kevin T. Leicht, December 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
How the 1970s Made America Both More and Less Equal
Thomas Borstelmann, May 2012
Inequality & the Middle Class
Why the Rich Have an Interest in Paying Higher Taxes
Robert H. Frank, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class
Paid Family Leave in California and New Jersey: The Benefits for Working Families and Employers
Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Inequality & the Middle Class
Who Gets What They Want from Government?
Martin Gilens, March 2012
Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Media and Public Opinion
Low-Wage Workers and Paid Family Leave: The California Experience
Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Inequality & the Middle Class
Fathers' Work and Child Wellbeing
Christine Percheski and Christopher Wildeman, March 2012
Inequality & the Middle Class, Antipoverty Policy
Union Decline and Rising U.S. Wage Inequality
Jake Rosenfeld and Bruce Western, March 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Inequality & the Middle Class
How Government by the Privileged Distorts Economic Policy
Nicholas Carnes, January 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How the GI Bill Built the Middle Class and Enhanced Democracy
Suzanne Mettler, January 2012
Higher Education, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Fighting Rigged Markets Promotes Equal Opportunity
Dean Baker, December 2011
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
Beyond Class War: Americans Want Government to Promote Equal Opportunity
Lawrence R. Jacobs, December 2011
Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Media and Public Opinion
How Washington Has Made the Rich Richer – And Abandoned the Middle Class
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy