State of Working America, 1998-99

[Brad De Long]

>
>> >Our release of "The State of Working America"
>> >will be on Labor Day, as usual (every other year).
>> >For those unfamiliar, this is a compendium of
>> >data in accessible form -- tables, charts, and
>> >accompanying, explanatory text -- of all things
>> >pertaining to the material standard of living
>> >of working people in the U.S. There are
>> >some int'l tables too.
>>
>> It's absolutely wonderful... The best thing of its kind...
>>
>> Brad DeLong
>
>Many thanks.  Can we use that quote for the back cover?

OF course you can... but don't you have better quotes from Richard Freeman,
Larry Katz and company?...


>
>> P.S.: I have a big wall chart called "The Structure of Social Inequality"
>> of the U.S. income distribution. It's now a decade out of date.
>> Do you know if anyone's updated it?>
>
>If you're talking about the one by Steve Rose,
>a buddy of mine, I'm not sure but I will find
>out and get back to you.  It's still sold at
>Kramerbooks in D.C.
>
>MBS

Yes. That's the one. It's great too. But it's out of date by now (and
things are much worse in relative income terms).