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Income levels for Americans vary across geography, race, and gender.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/10/income-and-wealth-in-the-united-states-an-overview-of-data
Poverty levels among children have remained high, while poverty levels among the elderly have declined.
Spending on children is shrinking as a percent of GDP.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/09/how-much-government-spending-goes-to-children
A key assessment of poverty in America is the Official Poverty Measure (OPM), which is calculated by the United States Census Bureau using a range of income and economic data.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/how-do-we-measure-poverty-and-is-there-a-better-way-to-do-it
Federal outlays for highways and mass transit are projected to outstrip the inflows that finance them.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0283_outlays_inflows_highways
Transfers from programs like Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP represent an increasing share of income for low to middle income groups.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0234_transfer_programs_share_income
The share of total pre-tax income has sharply increased for the wealthy, but decreased for low-income households.
While there has been positive news about recent wage growth, looking back over the last 40 years reveals a different story for the average worker.
While growth in 2019 has exceeded expectations so far, growth rates largely have conformed to forecasts, and many economists expect growth to remain lower in 2019 than in 2018.
Income growth since 1979 is larger for high-income earners, even when including transfers and taxes.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0059_income-growth-disparity
