Rich Stats/FEI Note

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Sat Dec 5 08:36:50 PST 1998


In the Gale, Houser, Scholz data "FEI" is family expanded income, not the Treasury's "family economic income." The former adds to AGI untaxed income like pension contributions, exempt interest, Social Security benefits, AFDC, Foot Stamps, SSI, etc., and 'before- income' taxes like the payroll tax, corporate income tax. The only other imputation is for health insurance. Treasury has further imputations, such as the imputed rental value of home ownership.

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