Archive for the 'Income - Growth' Category

Average Income in the United States (1913-2006)

Published by Catherine on May 4, 2008 in Area Graph, Income - Average, Median, Income - Growth, NBER, Pitketty & Saez, Recessions and United States. 10 Comments

I have updated my most popular graph Average Income in the United States. It now includes data through 2006 (in 2006$). I also added recessions from National Bureau of Economic Research

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Data from Emmanuel Saez’s web site

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Income Inequality: Democratic vs Republican Administrations

Published by Catherine on April 27, 2008 in Income - Growth, Income - Inequality, Distribution, Line Graph, US Census and United States. 0 Comments

Found the top graph via Paul Krugman’s blog. It is from a paper by Larry Bartels, professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University.

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I found a second graph in the same paper, showing the income inequality year to year (the 80/20 ratio measures the income inequality by dividing the income earned by someone at the 80th percentile by someone at the 20th percentile). Additionally, Bartels has highlighted the years Democrats and Republicans held the White House. Like a number of graphs on my site, you can see the increase in income inequality since the early 70s.

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Data in the graphs are calculated from the Historical Income Inequality Tables compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Addendum

5/2/08 Fix my definition of 80/20 income ratio

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