Treatise on Inequality in the United States · 1977–2026

Master Bibliography

Every source cited across all 13 term documents, plus the supplementary pages, consolidated and grouped by publisher. Individual documents cite the subset relevant to that term.

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This list consolidates the sources cited throughout the treatise. It is organized by publisher rather than by term, since many sources (Congress.gov legislative summaries, BLS unemployment series, Federal Reserve research) recur across multiple terms. It does not duplicate the term-specific source lists already included at the end of each document, but collects them in one place for reference or fact-checking.

Scope

117 individual citations across 40 publishers and source types.

Congress.gov · 46

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 summary

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 summary

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2013 summary

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 summary

Balanced Budget Act of 1997 summary

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 summary

Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 and 2015 summaries

CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) summary

China Permanent Normal Trade Relations Act of 2000 summary

Civil Rights Act of 1991 summary

Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 summary

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act summary

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 summary

Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (H.R. 4242) legislative summary

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (TARP) summary

Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 summary

Family Support Act of 1988 (H.R. 1720) legislative summary

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 summary

Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 summary

First Step Act of 2018 summary

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 summary

Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 summary

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) summary

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 summary

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 summary

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (S. 1200) legislative summary

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 summary

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 summary

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 summary

National Energy Act (1978), Airline Deregulation Act (1978), Motor Carrier Act (1980), Staggers Rail Act (1980), DIDMCA (1980), CERCLA/Superfund (1980) legislative summaries

North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act summary

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 legislative summary

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 summary

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 summary

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (WARN Act) summary

PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) summary

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act summary

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (H.R. 3734) summary

Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 summary

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 summary

Social Security Amendments of 1983 summary

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 summary

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) summary

Tax Reform Act of 1986 (H.R. 3838) legislative summary

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 summary

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 summary

American Presidency Project (UCSB) · 1

House and Senate Concurrence with Presidents

Autor, Dorn & Hanson · 1

'The China Shock' research literature (background)

Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U.S. 477 (2023) · 1

Supreme Court decision on student loan forgiveness authority

Center for American Progress · 3

President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Raises the Fiscal Gap

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Failed To Deliver Promised Benefits

analysis of income gains distribution, 2009-2013

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · 2

Government's Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty Surge Into a Record Poverty Decline

The Legacy of the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts

Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy · 1

The CARES Act and Poverty in the COVID-19 Crisis

Congressional Budget Office · 4

How the 2017 Tax Act Affects CBO's Projections; distributional estimates

Work and Welfare: The Family Support Act of 1988 (staff working paper)

historical household income distribution estimates

historical unemployment and income data, 2001-2005

Economic Policy Institute · 4

Raising America's Pay: Why It's Our Central Economic Policy Challenge

Tenth Anniversary of the Bush-era Tax Cuts

The Effects of PRWORA on Working Families

The State of Working America, 1998-99 and 2000-01 editions

Economic Policy Institute / World Inequality Database · 4

top income and wealth share estimates, 1985-1989

top income and wealth share estimates, 1989-1993

top income and wealth share estimates, 1993-1997

top income share estimates showing the post-1981 inflection point

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · 1

Accounting for Racial Wealth Disparities in the United States (working paper, 2019)

Federal Reserve Board (Survey of Consumer Finances) · 3

Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (FEDS Notes)

Greater Wealth, Greater Uncertainty: Changes in Racial Inequality in the Survey of Consumer Finances (2023)

Recent Trends in Wealth-Holding by Race and Ethnicity: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2017)

Federal Reserve History · 3

Volcker disinflation and monetary policy, 1979-1981

the October 1987 stock market crash

the Volcker disinflation, 1979-1982

Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances · 1

household net worth by wealth percentile, 2007-2010

Gale & Orszag (Brookings Institution) · 1

distributional analysis of EGTRRA/JGTRRA

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy · 1

Lapse of Expanded Child Tax Credit Led to Unprecedented Rise in Child Poverty

Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (Supreme Court, February 2026) · 1

ruling on IEEPA tariff authority

LendingTree · 1

Snapshots of Black and White Disparities in Income, Wealth, Unemployment and More

Miller Center (University of Virginia) · 1

Jimmy Carter domestic policy overview

NAACP Legal Defense Fund · 1

President Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act,' Explained

NBER · 1

Digest: Exploring 160 Years of the Black-White Wealth Gap

NPR / CNN / Washington Post · 1

reporting on DOGE federal workforce reductions, 2025-2026

NPR / Washington Post · 1

coverage of the 2015 Census income and poverty report

OECD · 2

An Overview of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD Countries: Main Findings (Divided We Stand, 2011)

Income inequality indicator series, oecd.org

Other · 1

Note: this document is an interim snapshot of a term in progress and should be revised upon the term's conclusion in January 2029.

Piketty & Saez, World Inequality Database · 1

top income share estimates, 1970s-1980s

Reagan Presidential Foundation · 1

Economic Policy overview (background)

Tax Foundation · 1

Trump Tariffs Threaten to Offset Much of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' Tax Cuts

The Century Foundation · 1

A Tale of Two Recoveries: Wealth Inequality After the Great Recession

The White House (Obama Administration) · 1

Fact Sheet: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the 2017 Economic Report of the President

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · 10

historical unemployment and inflation series, 2021-2025

historical unemployment rate series, 1981-1985

historical unemployment rate series, 1985-1989

historical unemployment rate series, 1989-1993

historical unemployment rate series, 1993-1997

historical unemployment rate series, 1997-2001

historical unemployment rate series, 2005-2009

historical unemployment rate series, 2009-2013

historical unemployment rate series, 2013-2017

historical unemployment rate series, 2017-2021

U.S. Census Bureau · 2

Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015 (P60-256)

Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States (1977, 1978, 1981 reports)

U.S. Census Bureau / Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy · 1

Child Tax Credit and Supplemental Poverty Measure research, 2021-2023

U.S. Department of Labor · 1

fiduciary rule and overtime rule rulemaking records

U.S. Department of the Treasury · 1

About TARP (program cost and structure)

U.S. House of Representatives / U.S. Senate · 2

Office of the Historian & Office of Art and Archives, Party Divisions of the House of Representatives, 1789 to Present

Senate Historical Office, Party Division

U.S. Joint Economic Committee · 1

The Expanded Child Tax Credit Dramatically Reduced Child Poverty in 2021

Wikipedia · 5

Economic policy of the Obama administration

One Big Beautiful Bill Act (legislative summary and provisions)

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (effects on caseloads and child poverty)

Subprime mortgage crisis and 2008 financial crisis (background and timeline)

Tariffs in the second Trump administration

Wikipedia / Tax Policy Center · 1

'Read My Lips: No New Taxes' and OBRA-1990 provisions

Yale Budget Lab · 1

Combined Distributional Effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and of Tariffs