Lecture Economics (6/e): Chapter 31 - Stephen L. Slavin-Kinh Te - Quan Ly

Chapter 31 - Income distribution and poverty. In this chapter, the following content will be discussed: How unequal is income distribution in the United States? What determines how income is distributed? How does the distribution of income differ from the distribution of wealth? How is poverty defined? Chapter31IncomeDistributionandPovertyCopyright2002 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc.All rights reserved.311ChapterObjectives•HowunequalisincomedistributionintheUnitedStates?•Whatdetermineshowinc

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Chapter

31

Income

Distribution

and

Poverty

Copyright

2002 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc.

All rights reserved.

31­1

Chapter

Objectives

•

How

unequal

is

income

distribution

in

the

United

States?

•

What

determines

how

income

is

distributed?

•

How

does

the

distribution

of

income

differ

from

the

distribution

of

wealth?

•

How

is

poverty

defined?

Copyright

2002 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc.

All rights reserved.

31­2

Chapter

Objectives

•

Who

are

the

poor?

•

What

are

the

main

government

transfer

payments

for

the

poor?

•

What

are

the

causes

of

poverty?

•

What

are

the

solutions?

Copyright

2002 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc.

All rights reserved.

31­3