Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 16, Chart 1
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, Money In come of Families and Persons in the United States, nos. 105 and 157; Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States, nos. 162, 174, and 180; Money Income and Poverty Status in the United States, nos. 166 and 168; and Income, Poverty, and Valuation of Noncash Benefits, no. 188. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index.
In contrast to the sizable increase in median family income in the 1950s and 1960s, family income in the 1970s showed no real gains. After posting modest increases during the mid-1980s, incomes for all families leveled off during the late 1980s and then declined between 1989 and 1993. Income in black and Hispanic households remained much less than in white households.
