> (2) Policy should look at what the post-redistribution (in the form of taxes, credits, subsidies, etc) income and wealth disparities are. It seems as though

> (2) Policy should look at what the post-redistribution (in the form of taxes, credits, subsidies, etc) income and wealth disparities are. It seems as though that is lost in the conversation. It's pretty hard to have a conversation about a problem and how to fix it, when the data being flung around doesn't measure the problem, and doesn't measure the fix either. As an example, looks like any data on poverty (often the basis economic inequality conversations) from US govt prior to 2011 is useless to measure the "war on poverty", because it doesn't measure most of the financial efforts to fight poverty. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/experts-say-bleak-account-of-poverty-missed-the-mark.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/experts-say-bleak-accou...