The state of working America

Overview: policy-driven inequality blocks living-standards growth for low- and middle-income Americans

Income: already a 'lost decade'

Mobility: Not offsetting growing inequality

Wages: the top, and very top, outpace the rest

Jobs: a function of demand

Wealth: unrelenting disparities

Poverty: the great recession adds injury to insult

Appendix A: CPS income measurement

Appendix B: wage measurement.