In 1978-79, it took 6.9 percent of the median family income to pay the average tuition charge.
This is nothing new between 1999 and 2009, the median family income in the U.S. fell 8.1%.
Real median family income' has been growing steadily for the last 30 years.
Between 2007 and 1982 college tuition went up 439 percent while median family income rose by only 147 percent.
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By contrast, its neighbor, Oregon, imposes a 9% income tax on the median family income, and a zero sales tax.
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Median family income has fallen all the way back to 1996 levels.
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State funding cuts to public institutions, declining median family income and spiking tuition costs have caused student debt to soar in recent years.
Greater declines in real median family income in both absolute and percentage terms than in Republican states, though they fell less than in swing states.
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It required stops in San Francisco, Hawaii, Canton Island, Fiji and Sydney, and it cost each coach passenger something like a quarter of that year's U.S. median family income, each way.
The survey comes not long after a report from the Fed that shows both median family income and net worth dropping dramatically over the last three years for the American family.
In none of the categories has it surpassed its relative valuation peak from 1980, but we are getting close compared to the median family income and the price of industrial metals.
The below chart plots the growth in total federal and state student aid against the change in one measure of college affordability: the ratio of real average FTE enrollment-weighted tuition to real median family income.
The issue for Asian-Americans is, because there is a high median family income, this issue is it's harder to get the resources and the services to low income Asian-American communities and, also, when you break it down by specific ethnic groups, the Hmong, the Bangladeshi, they have poverty rates that rival the African-American poverty rate.
Median real family income has fallen all the way back to 1996 levels.
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The housing affordability index (HAI) measures whether a family earning a median income could qualify for a mortgage loan on a median-priced, single-family home.
When the HAI equals 100, it means that a family earning a median income has exactly enough income to qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced home.
Krugman massages the numbers to show that the middle class has been left behind, including a chart measuring median (and mean) family income over the last 75 years.
When the HAI equals 130, for example, it means that a family earning a median income has 130% of the income necessary to qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced home.
Median family net worth has hit a two-decade low, median household income has declined, more than 30% of borrowers are underwater on their mortgage, 23 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, and half of college graduates this year come out of school unemployed or underemployed.
Of course, the lower the median household income in a given state, the more family budgets are hit by rising gas prices.
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