Penelope
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- Jul 15, 2014
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and more people have health insurance, and we have cleaner air and water. We still have high class divide which has become higher and higher each year, but you have not seen anything yet with Trump and his rich buddies. Only China has less Billionaires than the US, and many of them are in Wash DC now.
They are like a virus, sucking the middle income dry, living off of us, demand higher wages, demand benefits, demand retirement funds, encourage Mexicans to demand higher wages. They need workers to feed their pocket books, do not let them take completely over.
They are like a virus, sucking the middle income dry, living off of us, demand higher wages, demand benefits, demand retirement funds, encourage Mexicans to demand higher wages. They need workers to feed their pocket books, do not let them take completely over.
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME: 2014–2015 NATIONAL AND STATE COMPARISON Real median household income in the United States showed a statistically significant increase between the 2014 ACS and the 2015 ACS.5 The 2015 U.S. median household income was $55,775, 3.8 percent higher than the 2014 median (see Table 1). This was the third consecutive year with a statistically significant increase in the national median household income.
State income estimates from the 2015 ACS ranged from $75,847 in Maryland to $40,593 in Mississippi (see Figure 1).6 Median household income was lower than the U.S. median in 26 states and higher than the U.S. median in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Rhode Island ($58,073), Vermont ($56,990), Pennsylvania ($55,702), Texas ($55,653), Wisconsin ($55,638), and Nebraska ($54,996) had median household
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Income Inequality The Gini index for the United States in the 2015 ACS (0.482) was significantly higher than in the 2014 ACS (0.480). This increase suggests that income inequality increased across the country. The Gini index for the 2015 ACS increased in eight states. Connecticut was the only state to have a decrease in the Gini index. The remaining 41 states and the District of Columbia showed no statistically significant change between the 2014 ACS and the
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/acsbr15-02.pdf
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