Household Income in the United States

I decided to expand on yesterday's article about class in the United States and go further into the breakdown of household income.  We're going to look at the demographic drivers that make some households wealthier than others.  We'll look at the top 5% of earners in detail (the richest 5% of Americans, for instance, consists of married couples, both of whom worked, and earned a combined $157,176.  They own their own home and are overwhelmingly Caucasian).

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