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Family Income Continues to Grow in 2025 Data

Jeremy Horpedahl · 16 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Adjusted for inflation, far more American families are now high-income and far fewer are low-income than in 1967.

    Their wordsFigure 1 shows that, adjusted for inflation, the proportion of families with income over $150,000 has grown almost seven-fold since 1967. There has been a roughly constant one-third of the population between $75,000 and $150,000, and the ranks of those under $75,000 has been cut in half since 1967.

  2. Our reading

    Rising family income since 1967 is not mainly explained by families having more earners.

    Their wordsUsing other data from Census, we can see that the share of families with multiple earners hasn't increased much since 1967, and especially hasn't since the mid-1990s.

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