The Census Bureau report Changes in Median Household Income: 1969 to 1996 by Jack McNeil indicates that the US median household income rose six percent overall between 1969 and 1996. This modest increase does not reflect the more dynamic changes experienced by a variety of the household types studied, however, as selected measures in the seventeen statistical appendices included in the report...

Using US Census Bureau data, Wilfred T. Masumura's report Income, 1993 to 1994 indicates that the state of the economy is a not the only determinate of economic well-being. Other factors include household size and composition. Over-all, Masumura found that more people experienced income increases than decreases, at 41 percent and 37 percent respectively.

This 133-page report from the US Census Bureau focuses on experimental measures, as opposed to standardized measures, of poverty in the US such as an after-tax income measure; the value of food stamps, housing vouchers, and other in-kind benefits; and government policies aimed at needy families. The study found that including in-kind benefits greatly decreased the instances of poverty and that...

Released in August 2005 by the U.S. Census Bureau, this timely 85-page report examines recent changes within the demographic profile of the real median household income of US residents, along with material on the nation's official poverty rate and those persons without health insurance coverage. The data in the report is based on information from 2003 and 2004, and notes that the nation's official...

The Census Bureau has released this report based on the March 1998 Current Population Survey. Given all the press in 1998 on America's booming economy, it should come as no surprise that the report contains good news. For the third consecutive year, households in the United States experienced an annual increase in their real median income while the poverty rate fell from 13.7 percent in 1996 to...

This press release from the US Census Bureau announces that the number of Americans living under the poverty level dropped to 12.7 percent in 1998. This marks the fourth year in a row in which the median household income has risen. The reports, Money Income in the United States: 1998 and Poverty in the United States: 1998 break the data down demographically and highlight some of the more inclusive...

Several new items were released this week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this one resource of the four (available in .pdf format) might be particularly interesting to researchers. The first report gives mean hourly and weekly earnings and hours for selected occupations in private industry and government for 1999.

In August, the US Census Bureau released newly-compiled data on income and poverty as part of the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program. The aim of the program is to provide more current estimates of selected income and poverty statistics than the most recent decennial census by using data from states, counties, and school districts. The newest data tables online from SAIPE are...

Several new items were released this week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this one resource of the four (available in .pdf format) might be particularly interesting to researchers. New 1999 occupational wages data from nine regions, including the Middle Atlantic, Mountain, Pacific, and New England, can be accessed from the third URL.

According the this report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), real earnings from April to May 2000 declined 0.3 percent. This drop may have contributed to the 0.3 percent decline in average weekly hours as well as the 0.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.