income distribution

Cultural  

1. The way national income is divided among households in the economy.

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Example Sentences

“When support is extended across the income distribution, it sustains demand that firms can then use to pass on higher costs—forcing monetary policy to tighten more than it otherwise would,” she said in Berlin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

According to an analysis by the Yale Budget Lab, Booker’s plan would save households in the lowest 20 percent of the income distribution more than $800 annually.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

A household with $83,730 is at the 50th percentile, right in the middle of the income distribution.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 2, 2026

That said, the bottom parts of the income distribution are still spending.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Just 8 percent of undergraduates in 2004 came from families in the bottom half of the income distribution, down from 11 percent a decade earlier.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times