The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973. Early life and education
Rivlin is a daughter of the physicist Allan C. In 1971 Alice Rivlin authored Systematic Thinking for Social Action.

She has served as the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the first Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist a former U.