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Our blog is the place where our staff and guest bloggers present clear, fact-based posts that make the connections between economic inequality and growth for the broad policy community and journalists based on the latest academic research.

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New research shows how U.S. homeownership and the accumulation of housing wealth are linked to political participation

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Defining extreme wealth is more complicated than it looks

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Estimating AI exposure is useful for research but cannot yet tell policymakers the whole story of AI’s impact on the labor market

LaborInequality & Mobility
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Tracking new research on artificial intelligence and its impact on the U.S. labor market

Labor
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The costs of the Trump administration’s tariffs diverge for countries and industries so far in 2026

Tax & Macroeconomics
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Why Unemployment Insurance Alone Is Not Enough in the AI Era

Labor
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Streamlining applications to social programs unlocks more support for the U.S. families who need it most

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Personal Income in the United States nudges up in May but is down 0.76 percent in the past 6 months

Inequality & Mobility