* The 2012 Bank of America Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy: Issues driving charitable activities
among wealthy households, Bank of America and The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, November 2012.
Not exact matches
This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million
households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less -
wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent
among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.
Indeed, a recent study shows that between 1989 and 2013, municipal bond ownership has increasingly concentrated
among the nation's
wealthiest households.
Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than
among kids in
wealthier households.
The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the
wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically
among the nation's poorest
households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The city has a median family income of $ 102,611 as of 2000, which places it
among the top 100
wealthiest places in the United States with at least 1,000
households.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the American Affluence Research Center took a poll
among the
wealthiest 10 percent of Americans and found that
among the 11 million
households representing about half of all consumer income in this country, plans to reduce spending will mean a softness in the sale of new motor vehicles in the next 12 months.
Some of the
wealthiest households are
among those customers who make larger purchases of pet products.
The median
household income in Maryland is ranked first in the nation at nearly $ 70,000 dollars, making the state's workers
among the
wealthiest in the country.
Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher
among children in
wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity
among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly
household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.