Income Distribution,Poverty, and

Discrimination

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EXHIBIT 3 REAL MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME, 1980–2001

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/incfamdet.html, Table F-7.

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EXHIBIT 4 A HYPOTHETICAL LORENZ CURVE

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EXHIBIT 5 LORENZ CURVES FOR FAMILY INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1929 AND 2001

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EXHIBIT 6 LORENZ CURVES FOR SELECTED COUNTRIES

Source: The World Bank,http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/, Table 2.8.

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EXHIBIT 7 PERSONS BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE U.S. POPULATION, 1959–2002

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Poverty in the United States: 2002, http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html, p. 4; Table A-1, pp. 22–25.

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EXHIBIT 9 A NEGATIVE INCOME TAX PLAN

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EXHIBIT 10 LABOR MARKETS WITHOUT AND WITH RACIAL DISCRIMINATION