income distribution

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

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After last month's meeting, priorities are "accelerating innovation in strategic technologies and reinforcing domestic demand through structural improvements in income distribution and social safety nets", the report said.

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For most of the past few decades, workers in the lowest 10% of the income distribution had stronger income growth than workers with higher incomes, and they typically earned enough to move out of the bottom 10%.

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Households in the middle of the income distribution are expected to see a modest increase in federal resources.

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That total amounts to a nearly 4% reduction in federal resources for households in the bottom 10% of the income distribution.

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The economy is often assessed at the aggregate level, with statistics like gross domestic product, instead of a distributional focus that characterizes the experience at the low-end or for the broad swath of people in the middle of the income distribution.

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