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Recession Could Cause Large Increases in Poverty and Push Millions into Deep Poverty: Stimulus Package Should Include Policies to Ameliorate Harshest Effects of Downturn
11/24/08
Sharon Parrott
HTML, PDF, 15pp.

Testimony: Robert Greenstein Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Before the Ways and Means Committee
10/29/08
HTML, PDF, 11pp.

Average Income in 2006 Up $60,000 For Top 1 Percent of Households, Just $430 For Bottom 90 Percent: Income Concentration at Highest Level Since 1928, New Analysis Shows
Revised 10/22/08
Chye-Ching Huang and Chad Stone
HTML, PDF, 3pp.

Big Misconceptions About Small Business and Taxes
8/29/08
Chye-Ching Huang and James Horney
HTML, PDF, 9pp.

Poverty and Share of Americans Without Health Insurance Were Higher in 2007� and Median Income For Working-Age Households Was Lower � Than At Bottom of Last Recession: For Poverty Rate and Non-Elderly Median Income, Worst Performance on Record For Any Six Years of Economic Growth
8/26/07
Arloc Sherman, Robert Greenstein, and Sharon Parrott
HTML PDF, 7pp.

Statement: Robert Greenstein on Census' 2007 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Data
8/26/07
HTML PDF, 2pp.

What to Watch For in the New Census Income and Poverty Numbers
8/21/08
Arloc Sherman and Robert Greenstein
HTML, PDF, 3pp.

Testimony: Robert Greenstein Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and Labor
7/31/08
HTML, PDF, 10pp.

Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends
Jared Bernstein, Elizabeth McNichol, Andrew Nicholas
4/9/08
Full Report: PDF, 74pp.
National Press Release: HTM, PDF, 5pp.
Mississippi Press Release: HTM, PDF, 2pp.
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