Sentences with phrase «income than the bottom»

Meanwhile, the top 1 % of workers earned more in income than the bottom 40 % of workers.

Meanwhile, the top 1 percent of workers earned more in income than the bottom 40 percent of workers.

Not exact matches

By contrast, the bottom 99 percent of earners have taken home less than 19 percent of income increases.

Among the data's revelations are that in many parts of the Deep South, people have less than a 5 % chance of going from the bottom income level to the top.

The average income earned by the bottom 99 percent is 18 times lower than that earned by the top 1 percent.

A wide income disparity exists between the elite and everybody else in Massachusetts, where the average member of the top 1 percent earns 30 times more than the average member of the bottom 99 percent.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

Virginia, where eight American presidents were born, has a relatively low level of income inequality, with the top 1 percent earning 18 times more than the bottom 99 percent.

That's why analysts expect the government to look for operating expenditure cuts — such as cutting remaining fuel subsidies — even as it tries to keep up development spending and target lower - income households, often called the B40, or bottom 40 percent with incomes of less than around 2,500 ringgit a month.

The income top 10 percent earns nearly 12 times as much as the bottom 10 percent, up from a little more than 10 percent in 1999.

Income and property taxes paid are lower than in most states because median income and median home values are near the bottom of theIncome and property taxes paid are lower than in most states because median income and median home values are near the bottom of theincome and median home values are near the bottom of the list.

Although the average level of after - tax income of the top 1 percent of households remains well below its 2007 peak, the percentage increase in their average after - tax income from 1979 to 2013 was five times larger than that of the middle 60 percent and four times larger than that of the bottom fifth.

From 2001 to 2011, that study found that fewer than five per cent of Canadian taxpayers in the bottom half of the income scale owned at least 10 per cent of the shares in at least one Canadian - controlled private corporation (CCPC).

In the U.S., for example, those in the bottom quintiles of income distribution spend a much larger percentage of their expenses on food -, energy -, and rent - related expenditures than higher earners.

Maximization rates were much higher at the top than the bottom end of the income spectrum — the rate for holders with incomes above $ 250,000 was about four times the rate for holders with incomes below $ 20,000, and the rate for eligibles with incomes above $ 250,000 was 10 times the rate for eligibles with incomes below $ 20,000.

The bottom line here is that if your combined monthly debts «soak up» more than 50 % of your income, you might have trouble qualifying for a home loan as a first - time buyer.

That's not all that different from the cities at the very bottom of our list — San Jose, Fort Worth, and Boston — where more than 30 percent of borrowers» average monthly income is dedicated to loan and housing payments.

Bottom line: Total Other Income grew by 70 % YoY, much faster than every other income stream because I was able to take aIncome grew by 70 % YoY, much faster than every other income stream because I was able to take aincome stream because I was able to take action.

For example, households in the top 1 % of the income distribution tend to benefit more from the mortgage interest deduction than households in the bottom 99 %.

To put this in context, the richest 1 % of the population received more than twice as much income from capital gains alone, as the median total income of the bottom 99 % of society (which was $ 29,300 in 2011).

And its research and development spending is less than that of tech peers Alphabet and Microsoft, even though Apple's $ 48 billion of annual net income more than doubles both companies» bottom lines.

The bottom 10 % gets almost ten times more income ($ 8,474 per persons per year vs. $ 910) in capitalist countries than in non-capitalist countries.

The Indian economist Amartya Sen notes, moreover, that the growth in per capita income has been about one - third greater in countries at the bottom of the economic heap than those at the high end, and that the figures would be even higher if sub-Saharan Africa were excluded.

The bottom team of the English Premier League's income is more than Atletico!

If poverty is to be «tackled» it's necessary to have a definition other than the bottom x percent of income / earnings.

Using 2009 statistics for example, and ignoring all federal taxes other than income tax (you get slightly different numbers when you consider all federal taxes), the Top 1 % would have a 36.73 % controlling interest in the federal government and the Bottom 50 % would have a 2.25 % controlling interest.

I note that you «conveniently» don't say that under the hated Thatcher, the incomes of the bottom 25 - 30 % of society, increased far more than under Labour.

The chancellor admitted that «everyone will pay something» but insisted that those on the bottom of the income scale will pay less than those at the top.

SilentHunter - what you say about the incomes of the bottom 25 - 30 % increasing more under Thatcher than Labour is wrong.

One of their tables showed that if households are ranked by spending rather than income, the bottom 30 % of households are feeling more of the pain of deficit reduction than the top 2 %.

This would help balance out the regressive nature of New York's overall tax structure, where the wealthiest 1 percent pay a smaller share of their income in state and local taxes than do the bottom 99 percent.

A 2016 analysis indicated that men whose income is in the top 1 percent live almost 15 years longer than those in the bottom 1 percent, according to the report.

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

This has profound implications: Chetty and colleagues estimate that replacing a teacher whose value added is in the bottom 5 percent of the distribution with an average teacher would increase the present discounted value of students» lifetime income by more than $ 250,000 for a typical class (of 28 students).

«For more than one - hundred years,» King said, «Maine has always been in the bottom third of states — in prosperity, income, education, and opportunity for our kids.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

Students in the top quarter of the socio - economic spectrum spend about 11 hours on homework a week, 3 hours more than low - income students in the bottom quarter of the socio - economic spectrum.

The number of children coming from the top 10 % of household incomes would roughly halve, while the proportion of children coming from the bottom 40 % would more than double.

A t the beginning of kindergarten, the math and reading achievement gaps between children in the bottom and top income quintiles amount to more than a full standard deviation.

Yet fewer than one in ten children from the bottom quartile of household income will obtain a four - year college degree, compared to seven in ten from the top quartile.

The share of income going to the bottom 20 percent over this period stayed around 3 percent, declining by less than 1 percentage point.

During the peak era for defined benefit pension plans, only 22 percent of retirees in the bottom quartile had any retirement income other than Social Security, compared to 64 percent among those in the highest quartile.

Baltimore's scores on a rigorous national math and reading test were in the bottom third of large urban school districts across the country, though educators highlighted some progress in math and a promising trend of better - than - average results among some low - income black students.

The fund's current portfolio managers, which also include Matthew Quinlan and Alex Peters, leverage the combined investment expertise of the more than 200 investment professionals in the Franklin Equity Group and the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group ®, who perform bottom - up analysis to identify attractive investment opportunities in their respective areas of research.

The bottom line here is that if your combined monthly debts «soak up» more than 50 % of your income, you might have trouble qualifying for a home loan as a first - time buyer.

In the top quartile of the millionaires he studied, more than $ 11 of net worth had been accumulated for every dollar of household income; in the bottom quartile, only $ 3.

TORONTO — Four in ten (43 per cent) of the affluent millennials surveyed believe they will have more than enough income when they retire, despite putting saving for retirement near the bottom of their priorities, according to the most recent Manulife Investor Sentiment Index.

In contrast, households in the bottom quintile experienced an average growth of about 1 percent per year in their inflation - adjusted after - tax income over the same period, making that income 46 percent higher in 2013 than it was in 1979, CBO estimates.

Macdonald says seven out of ten senior families get no benefit at all from pension income splitting, while the richest 10 per cent of senior families receive more than the bottom 70 per cent combined.

EGTRRA, in contrast, raises after - tax income by 6.3 percent for households in the top 1 percent of the income distribution, compared to 2.8 percent or less for other groups, and less than 1 percent for the bottom quintile (see table 1).