The relationship between marriage and income: Jason Deparle captions: While the decline of two-parent families is most striking in the bottom quarter, that is a familiar story and had largely occurred by 1990. Much of the recent growth has occurred...
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The chart above is from The Economist, with the following commentary: "As the chart below suggests, the recent relationship between China's currency and America's trade deficit with China is not what China hawks in the Senate think ... Read Post
Why has the software industry seen an explosion of litigation lately? The courts played a big role, by making it easier to get patents in the 1980s and 1990s. But as this chart shows, the pendulum started to swing back … Continue re... Read Post
The majority of Americans make more money than their parents: A big caveat: Despite making more money than their parents, the bottom three income quintiles have all amassed less wealth. Only the top two income quintiles have done be... Read Post