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A Changing Nation—Wealth and Income Distribution - Growing Income Inequality, Median Household Incomes, Net Worth Of Households, Entering And Leaving Poverty

The U.S. Census Bureau has released a number of studies showing a change in the distribution of wealth and earnings in the United States. This change has resulted in an increase in the gap between the rich and the poor. Unlike many short-term economic changes that are often the product of normal economic cycles of growth and recession, these changes seem to indicate fundamental changes in American society.

A Changing Nation—Wealth and Income Distribution - Growing Income Inequality

A Changing Nation—Wealth and Income Distribution - Median Household Incomes

A Changing Nation—Wealth and Income Distribution - Net Worth Of Households

A Changing Nation—Wealth and Income Distribution - Entering And Leaving Poverty

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