Tag: Large Jump in Median Household Income Is Great News
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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…