{"id":1119,"date":"2012-01-04T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:25:15","slug":"the-biggest-driver-of-income-inequality-capital-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/the-biggest-driver-of-income-inequality-capital-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest driver of income inequality: capital gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Congressional Research Service \u2014 the nonpartisan public policy branch of Congress \u2014 takes a closer look at the drivers of income inequality between 1996 and 2006, the last period of moderate economic growth before the latest boom-bust cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The report explains that the Bush tax cuts contributed significantly to growing inequality but concludes that income from capital gains and dividends \u2014 investments in stocks, bonds, real estate and other assets \u2014 mattered even more:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/the-biggest-driver-of-income-inequality-capital-gains\/2012\/01\/02\/gIQA181EWP_blog.html\">The biggest driver of income inequality: capital gains &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Congressional Research Service \u2014 the nonpartisan public policy branch of Congress \u2014 takes a closer look at the drivers of income inequality between 1996 and 2006, the last period of moderate economic growth before the latest boom-bust cycle. The report explains that the Bush tax cuts contributed significantly to growing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[304,477,87,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}