2018: A Year of Consolidating Economic Gains for the Top

As we begin 2019, the Budget & Tax Center is re-releasing our most read Prosperity Watch analyses from 2018.  These weekly data snapshots tracked the economic recovery over the past year. Together, these analyses show how policy choices and the rules that guide our economy have continued to deliver the greatest benefit for those at the very top without making the progress needed on the state’s persistent economic challenges.

Below are the four most read Prosperity Watch posts in 2018:

• Job gains are faltering in 2018.
• Top 1 percent of taxpayers have gained the most from tax cuts since 2000.
• The gap between the top 1 percent and everyone else is growing.
• Recovery stalls in NC counties already facing barriers to opportunity.