Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption
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David S. Johnson is Assistant Commissioner of Consumer Prices and Price Indexes in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, E-mail: [email protected]; Timothy M. Smeeding is Maxwell Professor of Public Policy at Syracuse University, E-mail: [email protected]. edu; and Barbara Boyle Torrey is Visiting Fellow, Population Reference Bureau, E-mail: [email protected]. Economic Inequality
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