Income, Wealth & Poverty

On key economic outcomes, single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting

Earnings overall have held steady through the pandemic in part because lower-wage workers experienced steeper job losses.

Six-in-ten U.S. adults say they would prefer to live in a community with larger homes with greater distances to retail stores and schools.

Renters headed 36% of U.S. households in 2019. Young people, racial and ethnic minorities, and those with lower incomes are more likely to rent.

A growing share of U.S. adults say it’s a bad thing for the country that some people have personal fortunes of a billion dollars or more.

17% of the global population could be considered middle income in 2020. Most people were either low income (51%) or poor (10%).

The shares of Americans in each income tier who have home broadband or a smartphone have not significantly changed from 2019 to 2021.

Some 15% of all home broadband users in the U.S. say they have had trouble paying for their high-speed internet service during the pandemic.

In 2020, women earned 84% of what men earned, our analysis of median hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers found.

Putting minimum wage policy in the hands of lawmakers is one of several ways in which the U.S. approach stands apart from other countries.