Category
page 1Income in the United States
median income
macroeconomic indicator
The Power Elite
book by Charles Wright Mills (1956)
occupational segregation
distribution of workers across and within occupations
Average Joe
a roughly average person, in a national context
household income in the United States
economic standard applied to one U.S. household, or aggregated across a community or the nation
income inequality in the United States
national income inequality
Great Gatsby curve
economical chart plotting inequality and intergenerational social immobility
Great Compression
a decade of extraordinary wage compression in the United States in the early 1940s