Tag: Large Jump in Median Household Income Is Great News

Two colleagues looking at data on a computer screen

But the distribution of household income provides one more wake-up call.  The headlines from the new Census publication – Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015 – were that median household income increased by 5.2 percent and that the percentage of households in poverty dropped by 1.2 percentage points.  That is wonderful news indeed…