Tag: household income
3 persistent myths about workers and income. The Census Bureau’s annual report on trends in household income always provides an opportunity to compare facts with perceptions. Theses misconceptions relate to what it means to be in the top 50%, the growth in income and earnings over time, and in inequality in the distribution of incom…
This issue poses an enormous challenge for retirement security. The headline from this year’s Census Bureau’s publications on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States is fewer Americans are living in poverty but fewer also have health insurance. Both of these developments are newsworthy. The reduction in the poverty rate is good…
