Oct 11, 2017 ... Income growth for households in the middle and lower parts of the distribution  slowed sharply, while incomes at the top continued to grow strongly. ... Census  has statistics on family income that go back to 1947, but because Census defines  a “family” as two or more people living in a household who are ...
Aug 27, 2014 ... And even since 1979, the vast majority of American workers have seen their  hourly wages stagnate or decline—even though decades of consistent gains ...  Between 1979 and 2007, more than 90 percent of American households saw  their incomes grow more slowly than average income growth (which was ...
In the United States, income inequality, or the gap between the rich and everyone  else, has been growing markedly, by every major statistical measure, for some 30  ... Since 1979, the before-tax incomes of the top 1 percent of America's  households have increased more than four times faster than bottom 20 percent  incomes.
Jan 6, 2015 ... The figure compares the income growth of the middle three-fifths of American  households since 1979 to their income growth had there been no growth in ... It  would have been $94,310, roughly 23 percent (nearly $18,000) higher had  inequality not widened (i.e., had their incomes grown at the overall ...
Income inequality in the United States has increased significantly since the  1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income  received by higher income households has increased. This trend is evident with  income measured both before taxes (market income) as well as after taxes and ...
From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.