Next Release February 9, 2012 - Trends in Household Income: December 2011
This report provides our latest estimates of household income for December 2011. It includes a time series of the Household Income Index (HII) covering January 2000 to December 2011. Download Report
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Released February 1, 2012 - Changes in Household Income for Regions,Divisions,States and Metropolitan Areas: 2007 to 2010
This report is based on data obtained by the U.S. Census Bureau from its American Community Survey (ACS). Using two data files from the ACS, each based on 3.5 million interviewed households, we compare the level of household income for the three-year time period before the recent recession (2005-2007) with the three-year time period during and after the recession (2008-2010). The comparisons are made for the four regions, the nine divisions, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 297 individual metropolitan areas It includes numbers of households, median household income, and the income level defining the top 1-percent. Download Press Release
Released December 19, 2011 - Effects of Reductions in the Social Security Payroll Tax Rate for 2011 and Proposals for 2012
Sentier Research has prepared a bulletin containing an analysis of the effects of the current and proposed Social Security tax rate reductions. The bulletin contains estimates of the level of savings acheived by households under the current reduction in place (4.2 percent from 6.2 percent) and the proposed further reduction to 3.1 percent. It includes estimates of payments and saving by household income deciles and by selected household characteristics. Download Report