UNITED STATES: Tax policy drives income inequality

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In this article

  • Trend towards inequality
  • Winner takes all economy?
  • Top-end gains
  • Middle-class squeeze
  • Union decline
  • Tax policy
  • 'Skills premium'
  • 'Drift effect'
  • Policy implications

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