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| | Income Picture, August 29, 2006 |
 | | A longer-term view confirms the extent to which non-elderly families have fallen behind in recent years. Between 2000 and 2005, the real median income of households headed by someone under 65 is down 5.4%, twice that of the overall household median, which is down 2.7% over the past five years. |
 | | Thus, despite the positive overall median income growth of 1.1%, other evidence in today's report suggests that this recovery is still leaving working families behind. |
 | | The median household is the one right in the middle of the income scale: half of all households have higher incomes and half have lower. The poverty rate measures the share of persons in households with incomes below a minimum threshold, adjusted for family size. In 2005, the threshold for a four-person family was $19,971. |
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