Middle-Class Redistribution: Tax and Transfer Policy for Most Americans

Adam Looney, Jeff Larrimore, and David Splinter. In Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz (eds.), 2020.
The “middle class” has benefitted from government redistribution in recent decades. For individuals in non-elderly households in the middle three income quintiles (the middle class), the share of federal taxes decreased, and the share of transfers increased. [download pdf]