Re: Question about measuring labor income

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He included capital gains.  Since the stock market fell, rich people lost some ground,
which made the rest relatively better off.  They can even find WMD in the data if they try
hard enough.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:10:08AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
> On 3/30/06, Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > John Snow, Ph.D. economist (by the way, what kind of graduate work did he do?) says that
> > inequality has diminished under the Bush administration.
>
> The Census Bureau numbers on inequality at
> http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ineqtoc.html end in 2001.
> What data set is he using?
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
> of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles

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