Economic Snapshots

EPI Economic Snapshots featuring data from the forthcoming SWA 2008/2009 are now available:

Dismal employment trends characterize 2000s business cycle
Read the Economic Snapshot for August 6, 2008 to see how the 2000s business cycle failed to perform on the employment front.

Growing disparities in life expectancy
While life expectancy has grown in the United States, the degree to which people live longer has become increasingly connected to their socio-economic status. In two decades, the life expectancy gap between those at the top of the socio-economic scale and those at the bottom has grown wider. Read about it in the Snapshot for July 16, 2008.

See also select chapters from the new edition.

A number of EPI Snapshots featuring data from the last edition (SWA 2006/2007) are archived here.