Sentences with phrase «national share of income»

Historically, since 1918, this seems to also be the case: as the top federal tax rate rises, the national share of income of the top 1 % falls, and vice versa..

Not exact matches

Put simply, the nation's daunting demographic math dictates that the benefit programs keep absorbing bigger and bigger shares of national income.

Congress should enact new spending caps along the lines of the Budget Control Act, which helped to shrink outlays as a share of national income from 2013 to 2017.

The State essentially guarantees by its (mis) management and manipulation, the ensuing collapse will not be limited to certain sectors of the private economy but will cause massive contraction in the entire economy — including the State's share of the national income.

From the «conservative» ideology, the «problem» is that the Central State, in cahoots with public unions and Corporate Overlords, grabs an ever - larger share of the national income to redistribute to reward its cronies and favorites.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

«Earnings rose to a historically high share of national income that they couldn't possibly sustain.»

Market volatility is low, U.S. census data shows income gains have reached the middle class, and workers are clawing back a larger share of national income.

Yet earnings as a share of national income have surged to near records, hitting 9 % in recent years, 50 % over their pre-2008, long - term average of 6 %.

The 1 % who profit from a weaker economy, giving up some sales to retain dominance over pliant labor market, and 20 % share of national income, laugh all the way to the Fed Bank

With another major upswing in the terms of trade unlikely and the working - age share of our population having peaked as the population ages, improving productivity will be key to growth in our national income.

A recent national survey has found that more than half of students and parents would prefer to use an income share agreement instead of a private student loan to help pay for college.

Capital's share of national income has risen, while labor's share has fallen — even though it includes lavish compensation of executives who are paid disproportionately through stock grants, options and bonuses.

That is, there's another component to NIWG: rebalancing labor's share of national income.

Since there's a lot of inequality within labor's share of national income, this development won't reduce inequality that much.

As the percentage of unionized workers has plummeted, so has the middle class share of national income.

Looking back over time, the share of profits in America's national income has been fairly stable.

But Blomquist notes that local housing costs as a share of median income are far lower than the national average, so Montgomery County «is probably on the low end of the risk spectrum.»

For example, a conservative commentator might concede, grudgingly, that there has been some increase in the share of national income going to the top 10 percent of taxpayers, but then point out that anyone with an income over $ 81,000 is in that top 10 percent.

A result was stagnation or decline in the wages of ordinary people, with a growing share of national income going to the highly educated.

Debt won't start falling as a share of national income until 2016/17.

The OBR projects that, as a result, the share of national income spent by the state will fall from almost 48pc of GDP in 2009 - 10 to 39.5 pc by 2017 - 18.

The top 0.1 per cent of households have increased their share of national income from 2 per cent in 1980 to almost 10 per cent today.

The last five years have seen the toughest financial settlement in the history of the NHS, and UK health funding, as a share of national income, has lagged behind the rest of Europe for many decades.

Together these trends threaten to produce a society in which a relatively small section of the population comes to claim a larger share of national income through its (increasingly) concentrated ownership of (increasingly) inherited wealth.

Though technological developments might put downward pressure on labour's share of national income, workers would be compensated for this by their greater access to the return on capital.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty First Century argues that, absent corrective action, we can look forward to a rise in capital's share of national income and a corresponding depression of the share of labour.

The working class now receives a smaller share of national income — in the ten years to 1976 wages accounted for 60 %, but in the ten years to 2006 this had fallen to 54 per cent.

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

But ensuring that, over time, the state grows more slowly than the economy as a whole, so spending falls as a share of national income and we can reduce taxes and borrowing.

My spending plans in the last parliament reduced the share of national income taken by the state from the unsustainable 45 % we inherited, to 40 % today.

Last week, I wrote that the Government is currently on track to haul back the State's share of the economy from the ruinous 47.7 per cent of national income it reached under Labour to 39.5 per cent within five years.

The Labour government did reduce the national debt - as shown in the national accounts - as a share of national income at the end of the last century (although it's questionable whether most people would understand this to be the «last few years» of which Brown went on to speak).

He and other members of the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women commemorated National Equal Pay Day by sharing some sobering income data and calling for an end to gender - based pay inequities.

Increases in the share of students who receive Pell Grants may not signal that a university has actually enrolled more low - income students; it may be that more of its low - income students are receiving grants, which would be consistent with national trends shown in this analysis.

As we reflect on this moment in urban Catholic education, the Jubilee closings should not cause us to lose faith in our future; rather, we have an opportunity to work together and identify new ways — from donor relations to cost - sharing collaboration — to maintain and grow our national network of high - quality Catholic schools, especially those that serve lower - income populations in urban areas.

The CBO also reports that «the top 20 percent of income earners (those earning over $ 74,000) paid 94 percent of federal individual income taxes, 85 percent more than the share of national income they earned.

While education reformers and policy makers grapple with big fixes and the politics of national initiatives, most teachers and parents share the simple and urgent desire for students — especially those from low - income communities — to be on the road to college and ultimately to develop into people who will be equipped to thrive in the unpredictable future ahead of them.

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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) just released their findings of a study in which they studied «income growth, housing costs and changes in the share of renter and owner - occupied households over the past five years in metropolitan statistical areas throughout the US.»

While the results from the Pew report are good news for married, college - educated women, who shared a total family income of nearly $ 80,000 in 2011 (generously above the national median of $ 57,100 for all families with children), the findings also showed that mothers raising children on their own earned a median income of about $ 23,000.

Piketty applies these terms in his first fundamental law of capitalism, which is the accounting identity α = r x β, where alpha (α) equals capital's share of national income or the capital - labor split, r is the percentage rate of return on capital and Beta (β) is a ratio equal to the value of capital necessary to generate a years worth of national income.

A recent national survey has found that more than half of students and parents would prefer to use an income share agreement instead of a private student loan to help pay for college.

Net net, corporations» share of national income ended up being fairly flat over that time period, which is why I did not highlight this in my article.

In aggregate, investments can't outgrow growth in GDP by much, unless labor takes a progressively lower share of national income.

Corporate profits have commanded this large a share of national income only twice before: in 1929 and 2006.

Corporate profits in the final quarter of 2011 were $ 1.99 trillion dollars, which at 14.6 percent of national income is the largest profit share since the Department of Commerce started compiling quarterly data on the U.S. economy in 1947.

At the same time, the profit share of national income is at post-war highs and the employee compensation share of national income is at 40 - year lows.

Is it a coincidence that the profit share of national income and the debt were both at 60 - year highs while the labor share of income was at post-war lows?

As you know, in the land rising sun the coin - op industry is still live and kicking, and Sega — being the leader - has a major share of the national income (thanks also to its ownership of many arcade centers such as Club Sega and Sega Gigo, in which millions of yen is spent every year).