Economic Report of the President, February 1998. The Growth of Earnings Inequality Has Slowed. The figure shows the trend in the ratio of the income of the highest 10 percent of wage earners to the lowest 10 percent. The CPS line uses data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. The SIPP line uses data from the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Fewer Workers Are Unemployed or Under-employed.
The graph shows the number of under-employed plus the number of unemployed as a percentage of total employment. Worker Displacement Is Only Modestly Increasing. 237, May 1998, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. The New Office Economy. The graph shows the average unemployment rate for workers with less than four years of high school divided by the average unemployment rate for workers with four years or more of college in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.