Median Household Income: Life in the Middle

Building on the overall household distribution, learn about the trend in median household incomes as a precursor to income inequality.

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Additional DataPost slides on income inequality:
Income Inequality: Measuring the Gap
U.S. Household Incomes: A Snapshot

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Bernanke, Ben S. (2012, August). Economic Measurement. Speech presented at the 32nd General Conference of International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Cambridge, Massachusetts (via prerecorded video).

"Rising U.S. Wage Inequality: Whither the Middle Class?" FRBSF Video: Economics in Person (June 28, 2012).

Bengali, Leila and Mary C. Daly. "U.S. Economic Mobility: The Dream and the Data." FRBSF Economic Letter. (March 4, 2013).