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Economic Mobility of the States
Economic Mobility of the States is a new interactive tool that captures the findings of the first analysis of Americans’ economic mobility at the state level, including data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. more
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Report: States tax low-income families
The state income-tax burden faced by poor families has declined in the past 15 years, but some low-income families still incurred substantial state income-tax bills in 2005, according to a Feb. 22 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington D.C. group that focuses on policies affecting the poor. The report includes a state-by-state analysis.more -
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GOP Touts Bush's Record on State Affairs
Republicans made the case this week for a second term for President George W. Bush, saying his policies already are helping states budget prospects and will help states deal with the ongoing challenges of health care costs and job growth. Bush formally accepted his partys nomination at the Republican National Convention Thursday and sketched out his domestic agenda for a second term. more
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South Lags in Industry Research
The New South looks uncomfortably like the Old South, as industry research in the region - a key component of economic and wage growth - lags behind the rest of the country, a new report shows. more
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Nation's Poor Families Gain, But Troubles Remain, Study Finds
A study of the economic, physical and emotional well-being of America's families has found no evidence that the push to cut the public welfare rolls has hurt the nation's poor. Recent economic gains, however, have yet to sink deeply into family life, the report found. The privately funded survey by the Urban Institute and Child Trends is one of the most comprehensive attempts to gauge the fallout from recent decisions to shift authority over social programs to the states. more
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Family Incomes Rise, Poverty Lowest In 20 Years
The long arm of the American economy -- in its ninth year of growth -- has now reached into millions more households, boosting incomes and reducing poverty among all racial groups and particularly among the most vulnerable -- children and the elderly, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. more
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Income Gap Widens In Most States
Despite modest growth in incomes among the nations' poor in the late 1990s, the wealthiest Americans continued to increase their earnings at a faster pace. A new report released this week breaks down the income gap for all 50 states and finds that the wealthiest 20 percent of American families now earn more than 10 times as much as the poorest. more
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Southern, Western States Lag In Preventing Hunger
A report released this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture draws a map of a United States rimmed along the south and west by hunger, but increasingly plump and prosperous as you look north and east. As expected of the state that recently captured the unenviable title of the nation's poorest, New Mexico claims the highest rate of hunger. The upper Midwest boasts the most success in feeding the needy. more
