The widening tails: despite data and analytical trouble spots, researchers agree that income inequality has been rising

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Researchers using a variety of different measurements have concluded that the income inequality between the rich and the poor has increased, but they disagree about other issues including the reason and solution for the disparity. Tails of distribution, quintiles of household groups, and Gini ratios for annual family income are explained and charted, and the influences of skills, education, gender, and race are estimated. It is suggested that the gap may not widen further but is unlikely to improve without a focus on improving the accumulation of human capital in low-income groups.

Admin. of general economic programs, Wealth, Income distribution, Gini coefficient

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Owning a home in America

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The slight dip in the US homeownership ratehas raised the question of effecting a change in the government's pro-housing policy. The rate, which hit a high of 65.6% in 1980, declined due to a combination of economic and demographic factors. These include the lower cost of renting in the early 1980s, an anticipated decrease in house-price appreciation and income distribution among the different age-groups and family-type groups. Should a policy change be worked out, its goal should be real income growth instead of raising homeownership.

Housing programs, United States, Analysis, Housing, Housing policy, Home ownership

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The preferred approach to capital

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The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp', or 'Freddie Mac', offered preferred stocks on Mar 6, 1992 which are noncumulative and nonconvertible, with redemption on or after Jun 30, 1997. This move further strengthens Freddie Mac's capital base. Projected results of tests undertaken in stressful financial environments serve to illustrate the company's strategies and subject it to analysis. The selling of stocks is seen as a way to give Freddie Mac greater solvency.

Management, Securities, Capital formation, Preferred stocks, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

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