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Must-reads: April 14, 2016

Dina D. Pomeranz: Benefits of Welfare Payments
Megan McArdle: Listen to the Victims of the Free Market
Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
Nick Autiello: “#ConcreteEconomics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy is one of the best and most useful books of the year.”
Heather Boushey: The Political Economy of Time and ‘Work-Life Conflict’

Should Reads:

Diane Coyle: Why economic policy overlooks women
Max Roser: Global Inequality and Poverty
Narayana Kocherlakota: How to Make the Fed Work Better
Peter Dizikes: New Study Shows Rich, Poor Have Huge Mortality Gap in U.S.

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon