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After my last post I got to asking myself what should I see in the table in the Pew Research Center report on mean net worth. Specifically I was looking at the table on the right and asking what to expect for the percent change in mean net worth for those with a net worth [...]
The headlines this week read “Richest are getting richer.” This was based on the report from the Pew Research Center which in turn used on data on wealth released by the Census Bureau from the Survey of Income and Program Participation(SIPP). The report from the Pew Research Center was titled: An Uneven Recovery, 2009-2011 – [...]
Such is the title of an article in the Washington Post on a study by the ADP Research Institute. The study and the claims raise several questions. The Data. The ADP report is based on data from the large corporations that they work with. This means that a significant segment of the population that works [...]