January 20, 2021
A focus on income poverty alone will overlook the precarious economic conditions related to low levels of wealth and their impact on children’s life chances.
October 27, 2020
Tax increases for those at the top can raise revenue from those that have experienced the greatest gains in income and help counter economic inequality.
August 4, 2020
Wealthy parents tend to raise wealthy kids. But how much of this relationship is due to genetics, to environmental factors, or some combination of both?
July 27, 2020
Black households with children had just 1 cent of wealth for every dollar of wealth for white households. Wealth is critical for children's well being and prospects.
September 12, 2019
Jeffrey Zabel (Tufts) and Michael Klein, Executive Editor of EconoFact discuss whether homeownership is a good way to build wealth.
April 9, 2019
Buying a house provides one of the few ways for low-income families to accumulate wealth. But, this is only true when the housing market is relatively stable.
August 13, 2018
Accounting for inflation would tax the increase in the real purchasing power of an asset rather than the increase in value that reflects overall rising prices.
June 27, 2018
Average house prices in the U.S. have risen sharply since the Great Recession. Measures of debt burdens and delinquency rates are indicative of a current housing market that is in a stronger position than at the peak of the recent housing boom in the early 2000s. But there is considerable variation among cities.
October 7, 2017
American households have recently made broad-based gains in wealth, but many have not made up for losses during the Great Recession. How could they save more?