household income

Op-Ed
April 01, 2025
The Daily Economy

Is US Household Wealth Really at Record Highs? Here’s What My Research Says

By Paul H. Kupiec
Report
grocery store
March 26, 2024

Economic Characteristics of the Food Insecure

By Angela Rachidi | Thomas O'Rourke
Post
January 12, 2024
AEIdeas

When It Comes to the State of the American Economy, Let’s Keep It Real

By James Pethokoukis
Post
May 19, 2023
AEIdeas

Who Won the Cold War? Part I

By Nicholas Eberstadt
Report
Father walking with his son around the neighborhood.
December 14, 2022
American Enterprise Institute

Bringing Home the Bacon: Have Trends in Men’s Pay Weakened the Traditional Family?

By Scott Winship
Post
September 24, 2020

More Charts and Commentary on Last Week’s Census Bureau Report on Income

By Mark J. Perry
Working Paper
A woman crosses the empty of street Park Avenue in Manhattan as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in New York, U.S., April 5, 2020. REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz
June 26, 2020
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Bruce D. Meyer | | James X. Sullivan
Post
Retired Americans
February 21, 2020
AEIdeas

When Bad ‘facts’ Downplay a Good Economy, Part 5: Are Half of Americans Unprepared for Retirement?

By James Pethokoukis
Post
Jim 2_20 2 graph
February 20, 2020
AEIdeas

When Bad ‘facts’ Downplay a Good Economy, Part 4: How Many Americans Live in Poverty?

By James Pethokoukis
Post
February 18, 2020
AEIdeas

When Bad ‘facts’ Downplay a Good Economy, Part 2: Are Most Americans Really Living Paycheck to Paycheck?

By James Pethokoukis
Working Paper
A PARENT PLAYS WITH AN INFANT CHILD AND A TODDLER AT HOME
December 16, 2019
AEI Economic Policy Working Paper Series

How Do Children Affect the Need to Save for Retirement?

By Andrew G. Biggs
Post
A young child at the dinner table reaches for a piece of corn on the cob
September 05, 2019
AEIdeas

Food Security in the US Improves for Another Year

By Angela Rachidi
Post
June 13, 2019
AEIdeas

Even as the US Economy Produces More Jobs and Higher Wages, Somehow Capitalism Stays Broken. Weird.

By James Pethokoukis
Working Paper
How is employment affected by changes to minimum wage?, @TonyTheTigersSon via Twenty20
June 10, 2019
AEI Economic Policy Working Paper Series

Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-committed Research Design: Evidence Through 2017

By Michael R. Strain | Jeffrey Clemens
Working Paper
June 03, 2019
AEI Economic Policy Working Paper Series

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States

By Bruce D. Meyer | Derek Wu | Carla Medalia | Victoria R. Mooers
Report
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November 01, 2018
American Enterprise Institute

Annual Report on US Consumption Poverty: 2017

By Bruce D. Meyer | James X. Sullivan
Podcast
October 03, 2018

Median Household Income Is at an All-time High. Are You Happy Yet?

By Mark J. Perry
Post
September 13, 2018
AEIdeas

Explaining US Income Inequality by Household Demographics, 2017 Update

By Mark J. Perry
Post
September 12, 2018
AEIdeas

Census Data Released Today Show Continued Gains for Middle-class Americans and Little Evidence of Rising Income Inequality

By Mark J. Perry
Article
August 07, 2018
The Wall Street Journal

Hardly Anyone Wants to Admit America Is Beating Poverty

By Bruce D. Meyer | James X. Sullivan
Post
April 09, 2018
AEIdeas

The Best Sentence I Read Today…..

By Mark J. Perry
Press
October 16, 2017

Discussing Corporate Tax Cuts: Mathur on Marketplace

By Aparna Mathur
Report
September 19, 2017
American Enterprise Institute

To Save or Borrow: Comparing Federal Benefits for 529 College Savings Plans and Student Loan Forgiveness

By Jason D. Delisle | Preston Cooper
Post
September 14, 2017
AEIdeas

Some Charts from the Census Data Released This Week on US Incomes in 2016 Showing Impressive Gains for Americans

By Mark J. Perry