Internet resources
Chapter 20: Income Distribution, Poverty, and Government Policy
Web assignments:
- Trends in Poverty Rates
- Marginal Tax Rates and Phaseouts
- The Lorenz Curve
Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 20
- Adam Smith's Recommendations on Taxation
- This page, authored by Nadia Weiner, provides a summary of Adam Smith's views on taxation,
and a collection of quotes from The Wealth of Nations related to principles of taxation.
- Congressional Budget Office
- This site contains information about current federal taxation and spending issues.
- Dr. Quiggly's Museum of Tax Oddities
- An interesting collection of unusual tax laws (visit The Hall of Ancient Relics while at this site).
- Federal Tax Links (from TaxWeb)
- A collection of links to sites containing information about the federal tax system.
- Federal Tax Code
- An online version of the federal tax code.
- Historical Income and Poverty Tables
- U.S. Census historical statistics on the distribution of income and poverty levels in the U.S.
- Social Security Administration
- Find out more about the operation of the social security system at this site.
- Tax Reform Proposals
- A collection of links to online information and articles concerning a variety of recent flat-tax proposals.
- U.S. Census Bureau: Poverty - The Official Statistics
- This page contains information about the demographic composition and the geographical distribution of individuals living in poverty in the U.S.
- "Worsening American Income Inequality: Is world trade to blame?"
- Gary Burtless argues that the increase in income inequality in the U.S. is the result of structural changes in the U.S. labor market, and is not the result of foreign trade.
Related resources:
- Other economic resources
- This page contains a set of links to economic resources that may be of interest to introductory economics students.
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