“In an era of wild inequality, sputtering wages, and rising rents and health-care costs, the American working class has had one consistent financial respite: ‘stuff,’ broadly defined, is cheap … Or perhaps not. A new analysis from a prominent group of economic researchers suggests not only that rising prices have been quietly taxing low-income families more heavily than rich ones, but also that, after accounting for that trend, the American poverty rate is significantly higher than the official measures suggest.” The Atlantic on The Inflation Gap.