WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities will hold a conference call briefing on Thursday, Jan. 26 at noon EST to discuss a major new CBPP/EPI report showing that the gap between the highest-income families and poor and middle-income families grew significantly between the early 1980s and the early 2000s.
The study is one of the few to examine income inequality at the state as well as national level, and includes fact sheets for all 50 states.
This trend is in marked contrast to the broadly shared increases in prosperity between World War II and the 1970s.
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