Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats? The United States is in its
fourth year of strong economic growth and low inflation and its
ninth year of economic expansion, yet important distributional
questions remain. This report, the first in a research program
on the distributional issues associated with economic growth,
uses a unique series of poverty statistics to investigate the
distribution of economic gains, measured by a reduction of
poverty among people working full-time and year-round. - Poverty
has risen in both the number and share of those employed full-
time and year-round since 1973. - Since the mid-1970s, long-term
economic growth has had little impact on poverty among full-time
workers. - There are great differences in the poverty experience
of full-time workers living in different regions of the country
and belonging to different racial/ethnic groups. - Ethnic
minorities working full-time move in and out of poverty more
often than whites. - a letter to readers from The Conference
Board's chief economis