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by Catherine Mulbrandon on May 1, 2009

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North America Income, Education, Employment: 2006

by Catherine Mulbrandon on November 23, 2008

Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs unemployment. (The red circle, indicating very high income, belongs to Washington DC)

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US Population Ancestry magnifying glass

[tags]United States, OECD, Mexico, Canada[/tags]

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US Census Education Attainment

by Catherine Mulbrandon on January 1, 2008

US Census Education Attainment
Historical tables from Current Population Survey about Education of Americans. for example: Mean Earnings of Workers 18 Years and Over, by Educational Attainment

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The New Inequality

by Catherine Mulbrandon on December 10, 2006

Here is another New York Times article. This one touches on some of the themes that keep coming up in the income inequality discussion, such as the role of the global economy, education, government taxes policy, and the changes in the income distribution during the last 30 years:

. . . From World War II through the 1970s, while most Americans were getting solid raises every year, the incomes of the richest 1 percent were doing only a little better than inflation. Since the 1980s, the two groups have switched places. The affluent have received huge gains, and everyone else’s pay growth has slowed down. For the last six decades, in other words, the American economy has been much more of a zero-sum game than we might like to believe.

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