Table of Contents
- EARN Report
- The Increasingly Unequal States of America: Income Inequality by State, 1917 to 2012
- Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Unequal income growth in the economic recovery
- Income inequality across the states in 2012
- Lopsided income growth from 1979 to 2007
- Inequality back at levels not seen since the late 1920s
- Income inequality in the last 10 economic expansions
- Conclusion
- About the authors
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological appendix
- Individual income and tax data for Pennsylvania, by size of adjusted gross income, tax year 2011
- Estimating tax units by state
- Estimating total income (including capital gains)
- Pareto interpolation
- Interpolation errors
- Comparing imputed top incomes to actual top incomes
- Calculating the 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles for Pennsylvania
- Comparison of Piketty and Saez to Sommeiller and Price
- Comparison of Piketty and Saez’s results with Sommeiller and Price’s U.S. results
- From Table 1. Income growth from 2009 to 2012, overall and for the top 1% and bottom 99%, U.S. and by state and region
- From Table 2. Ratio of top 1% income to bottom 99% income, U.S. and by state and region, 2012
- From Table 3. Income threshold of top 1% and top .01%, and average income of top .01%, U.S. and by state and region, 2012
- From Table 4. Income growth from 1979 to 2007, overall and for the top 1% and bottom 99%, U.S. and by state and region
- From Table 5. Top 1% share of all income, U.S. and by state and region, 1928, 1979, 2007
- Endnotes
- References