One thing we all have in common is, regardless of income-level, Americans' single biggest expense is housing.
They tailor messages by gender, income-level, ethnic status, and even health concerns.
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However, as the economy reaches the high middle-income level, unleashing innovation and industrial upgrading is becoming key to sustainable growth.
Wyoming, where the cost of doing business is low and state-level income taxes are nonexistant, came in 4th with a rate of 1.6%.
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An even broader measure of financial obligations that includes automobile lease payments and the cost of renting a home also fell in the third quarter, dropping to 15.74 percent of disposable income -- the lowest level since the first quarter of 1984.
This measure, an obsession of real estate research firm Green Street Advisors (which provides us with much of our REIT data), is net income plus depreciation minus maintenance-level capital expenditures.
This is income from almost all sources (including tax-exempt bonds, for example), reduced by income taxes and by an allowance for subsistence-level living.
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Peter Hooper and Torsten Slok of Deutsche Bank reckon that if saving stays at about 6% of income, write-offs remain near today's elevated level and household income rises by 4.5% a year, household debt will fall from 126% of disposable income now to around 85%, where it was in the early 1990s, by 2013 (see chart 3).
Whether this cap would also affect lower- and middle-income filers depends on the level of the cap.
We reduced corporate-income tax to the same level as Alberta and Ontario.
Since independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle income group of countries.
Homex, one of Mexico's largest home builders, focuses on the entry-level and middle-income housing segments.
Their recovery might not be so much better than ours, but they did have a much better crisis, with smaller consequences for the long-term level of national income.
Medicaid coverage for people with disabilities has been limited, as many only qualify if their medical expenses are very high -- forcing their income below the poverty level.
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Ultimately, where you decide to put your money may depend less on your age--though that is a consideration--and more on your income level, need for liquidity and wealth transfer plans.
May is Asian-American Heritage Month and, over the course of the month, you might have heard it said that Asian-Americans enjoy the highest income and level of educational attainment of any racial group in this country.
Mr Gilbert said the level of fixed-income business that had left Aberdeen Asset Management had "slowed significantly" and the company continued to be successful in attracting new investment to global equity and emerging market equity funds.
Leading economists agree that high-quality early learning programs can help level the playing field for children from lower-income families on vocabulary, social and emotional development, while helping students to stay on track and stay engaged in the early elementary grades.
Today, unemployment is 5%, while median household income is double its 1975 level even in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to Census Bureau figures.
Mr Obama proposes to cut the deficit by returning the top marginal income-tax rate to the 39.6% level of the late 1990s.
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By third grade, children from low-income families who are not reading at grade level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than students who are proficient.
Currently borrowers can apply for income-based repayment plans that cap student loan payments at 15% of their income above the basic poverty level.
Bottom line: If you have more than one child attending a pricey private college, you may qualify for need-based aid even at a fairly high income level.
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Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level pathways once dreamed of for low-income workers.
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California has taken the idea of managed care for low-income seniors and people with disabilities to a whole new level.
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Employees given a raise may adjust their view of it to their new income level, so their satisfaction from it is short-lived.
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World Bank president James Wolfensohn has urged leaders in high-income countries to increase official development assistance from the current level of 0.24% of GDP to 0.7% of GDP.
In particular, low-income people would be forced to save even if their present level of consumption is meagre.
By roughly mid-2011, the level of consumer debt relative to income had declined by about 15 to 18 percent.
Income gaps at this level have less to do with the skills-bias of the modern economy and more to do with its global reach.
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