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Middle class: Income and consumption trends

Middle class: Income and consumption trends. Heather Boushey, Economist Center for Economic and Policy Research 21 March 2006. Figure 1. Changes in income share by economic class.

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Middle class: Income and consumption trends

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  1. Middle class: Income and consumption trends Heather Boushey, Economist Center for Economic and Policy Research 21 March 2006

  2. Figure 1. Changes in income share by economic class Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income Tables, Table H2 http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/h02ar.html.

  3. Figure 2. Growth in inflation-adjusted family income Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income Tables, Tables F1 & F5 http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/.

  4. Figure 3. Inflation-adjusted median family income Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Historical Income Tables, Tables F1 & F5 http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/.

  5. Figure 4. The “two-income trap” Source: Warren and Tyagi, 2005. The Two-Income Trap, p. 51.

  6. Table 1. Relative mobility, Comparing 1969-79 & 1988-98 Source: Bradbury and Katz, 2002.

  7. Figure 5. Annual hours of work in married families, 1979 & 2000 Source: Mishel, Bernstein, and Allegretto, 2004.

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