The meaning of “middle-income” changes a lot depending on where you live and your household size.
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What Qualifies as Middle-Income in Each State
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Single-Income Occupations
About 18 percent of couple households are single-income. I wanted to know what the earner in these homes usually do.
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When wife earns more than husband, they report a lesser gap
Marta Murray-Close and Misty L. Heggeness for the Census Bureau compared income responses…
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Income mobility for different groups
Building on their previous visualization work on black boys dropping income levels in…
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Black boys dropping income levels as adults
Research by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter from the…
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Who Earns More Income in American Households?
Compared to 1970, a shift towards women making the higher income.
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Mortgages in terms of years of working life
Buying a house is often confusing and complex, compounded by a dollar sign…
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Shifting Incomes for Young People
Compare incomes for young people from the Millennial generation and the baby boomer generation.
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What $100 buys in each state
A hundred bucks in one state doesn’t always get you the same thing…
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Rise in income for the poor and middle class
We know that income increased by a lot in 2015, but for who?…
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Income Increased
But not every group’s median income increased by the same amount.
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Shifting Incomes for American Jobs
For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.
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Who Earned a Higher Salary Than You
Work changed over the years. Salaries changed over the years. I was curious: If you compared your personal income from present day, how would it compare to the distribution of salaries in previous decades?
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Compare your curve to reality for income versus college attendance
Those who grow up in poorer families are less likely to go to…
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Upward mobility and the potential for a better life
An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…
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Wealth inequality explained in charts
Wealth inequality is a real thing that is complex and a result of…
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LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality
LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…
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Top 1% earners versus bottom 90%
Quoctrung Bui for Planet Money plotted average income for the top one percent…
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Shrinking middle class
The Upshot has a detailed, chart-filled summary of the shrinking middle class, categorized…
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Basic chart, wrong conclusions
A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…
