What Jeremy Horpedahl thinks about America

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Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Central Arkansas; writes about economic data and research at Economist Writing Every Day.

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1. 16 Sept 2026

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

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   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.

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