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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity.
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During the mid-20th century, strong economic growth was broadly shared, as incomes increased and children could expect a better quality of life than their parents, though significant disparities across demographic groups remained. In recent decades, wealth, income, and earnings inequality have been rising and mobility declining, and demographic disparities persist. Better understanding these trends and their implications for economic growth will inform evidence-backed policies that improve growth and mobility for people across incomes, regions, and demographic groups.
Featured Research
Slow wage growth is the key to understanding U.S. inequality in the 21st century
July 8, 2025
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Factsheet: U.S. economic mobility and policies to increase upward mobility
June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025
GDP 2.0: Measuring who prospers when the U.S. economy grows
July 11, 2023
July 11, 2023
Stratification economics: What it is and how it advances our understanding of inequality
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February 28, 2022
Six charts that explain how inequality in the United States changed over the past 20 years
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Equitable Growth event highlights the path forward to rebuild the U.S. administrative state
December 17, 2025
December 17, 2025
Equitable Growth Presents: Reimagining the Federal Government
December 9, 2025 2:00PM - 3:30PM
U.S. social insurance programs support workers and economic growth
December 2, 2025
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Equitable Growth hosts Econ 101 virtual event on how U.S. social insurance programs boost economic mobility
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Uncertainty created by ever-changing tariff policies harms U.S. economic growth
November 20, 2025
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In conversation with Sabeel Rahman
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Distributional weighting in benefit-cost analysis is practical and effective at assessing government rulemaking without bias against low-income individuals
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Tariff costs impact industries with mostly White, male, and noncitizen workers
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