US Income Inequality Before Taxes and (Many) Transfers: Census Data - Conversable Economist
Each year, the US Census Bureau publishes three overview reports to update the annual data on income, poverty rates, and health insurance. Here, I focus on some figures from Income in the United States: 2024, by Melissa Kollar and Zach Scherer (September 2025, P60-286). Here's a figure showing several measures of pre-tax income inequality. It's