A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022 Politics ampampampbull Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize Manhattan InstituteHailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2022 The Myth of American Inequality demonstrates that the federal government egregiously overstates the degree of inequality and poverty in the worldampampamprsquos wealthiest nation. In doing so the authorsa former United States senator eminent economist and a former senior leader at the Bureau of Labor Statistics challenge the prevailing consensus that income inequality is a growing threat to American society. Getting the facts straight reveals that the key measures of wellbeing are greater than the official statistics of the country would lead us to believe.