{"id":107217,"date":"2020-09-15T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=107217"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:23:02","slug":"census-bureau-reports-that-household-income-was-highest-ever-at-68703-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=107217","title":{"rendered":"Census Bureau Reports that Household Income Was Highest Ever at $68,703 in 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC…The U.S. median household income was $68,703 in 2019, 6.8% higher than in 2018, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today. That\u2019s the highest median U.S. household income since they began recording it. But the COVID-19 pandemic affected who responded , potentially biasing the estimate upward. So, was household income last year really the highest on record?<\/p>\n

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Looking at how COVID-19 affected who responded the Census Bureau believes that the numbers were slightly skewed upward.\u00a0 Even with that their current estimate is that income in 2019 was about 4.1% higher than in 2018, indicating median household income in 2019 was\u00a0<\/i>the highest on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC…The U.S. median household income was $68,703 in 2019, 6.8% higher than in 2018, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today. That\u2019s the highest median U.S. household income since they began recording it. But the COVID-19 pandemic affected who responded , potentially biasing the estimate upward. So, was household income last year really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,149,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-financial","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fullscreen-capture-9152020-111055-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}