Income Insights
4 reports tagged income.
Advanced Degrees, Limited English: America’s Hidden Credential Gap (2024)
About 300,000 working-age adults hold a master’s, professional, or doctoral degree but speak English "not well" or "not at all." They earn roughly half what their English-proficient peers with the same degrees earn.
Two-Career Overwork: When Both Spouses Work Long Weeks (2024)
Half of American married couples are dual-earners, but in only a small slice do both spouses grind 50-plus-hour weeks. And the long hours still fall mostly to husbands.
Million-Dollar Homes, Modest Incomes (2024)
About one in six million-dollar homes in America is owned by a household earning under $75,000 a year. A look at where the asset-rich live on ordinary paychecks, from Census microdata.
Home Is a Boat, an RV, or a Van: The 360,000 Americans Who Live in One (2024)
Most of them own it outright, and their median household income is less than half the nation’s. A count of the households whose home is a boat, RV, or van, from Census microdata.