Showing posts with label median household income. Show all posts
Showing posts with label median household income. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

In 2023 housing affordability in the United States bounced off the 2022 low but is still 9.15 points off the more affordable levels of the 1980s

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 The median income in 2022 bought just 17.22% of the median house, the all-time low in the most up-to-date data. In 2023 that rose to 18.89%...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Median household income bought 21.5% of a house in 2019 under Trump vs. less than 19% of one in 2023 under Biden-Harris

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Three consecutive years of declining real incomes, that's why

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  Economy Is Great. Why Are Americans in Such a Rotten Mood?  
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Housing affordability drops for a third straight year, now the most unaffordable on record in 2022, surpassing the 2021 record

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Real median household income has contracted for a third year in a row in 2022

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Housing in America in 2021 has never been more unaffordable

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Median household income in 2021 bought just 17.8% of the median sales price of houses sold.  
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Median household income now buys about 17% of the median sales price of a house, a new low: Joe Biden is the Barack Obama of unaffordable housing, only worse

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 Housing affordability has never been so bad. The median sales price in 1Q2022 climbed to $428,700. Median household income in January 2022...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

The on-going housing bubble

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I checked the value of my home on Zillow today. It's nuts. After 13 years the estimated price is up 6.5% per annum. On the other hand, t...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Median household income in New Hampshire is 8th highest in the nation, Bernie

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Friday, October 5, 2018

The American Dream remains more expensive in 2018 than it was at the peak of the housing bubble in 2005

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1H2018 uses Sentier Research July 2018 nominal median household income of $62,450/$320,800
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Big whoop: Real median household income rises $384 to new high after 17 years, says Census

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From $58,655 in 1999 to $59,039 in 2016. That's a total rise of 0.6546756 percent. Don't spend it all in one place.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Obama says America is great right now, on same day his own Census Bureau reports people are 6.5% poorer than in 2007

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Obama here . Marketwatch here : "The Census Bureau reported that median household income was $53,657 in 2014. That’s less tha...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Stephen Moore tells some whoppers: Income was FALLING long before the 2013 increase in the capital gains tax rate

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From Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, here : "When Mr. Obama entered office the capital gains and dividend tax was 15 ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Obama says you're better off than when he took office, except you are not

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click to enlarge Obama says, quoted here : "Like the rest of America, black America in the aggregate is better off now than i...
Friday, October 3, 2014

11.2 million fewer people contribute to the economy today than in 2007

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You'll have to do the math. Rick Newman, here : ... there are still more than 16 million Americans who are unemployed or worki...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The median priced existing home is affordable only to the highest reaches of the upper middle class

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From an interesting discussion recently about what it means to be middle class,  here : One helpful yardstick to judge whether you're mi...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Americans Still Earn Way Too Little To Afford The Median Priced Home

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The national median price for an existing home in December 2013 was $196,300 . Median household income at the end of 2013 had reached $52,29...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Academic inflation makes medical inflation look modest by comparison

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The greedy Marxists who outnumber conservatives on college faculties by three to one figured out long ago how to avoid the draft, subvert th...