The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Tue Jan 14 20:20:06 PST 2003


a household can be one person. family is at least two.

mbs

-----Original Message----- From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Bradford DeLong Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:46 PM To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest


>Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>>Just out of curiousity: what's the average annual salary in the 81st
>>percentile?
>
>For total household income in 2001, the upper limit of the fourth
>quintile was $83,500, and the bottom of the top 5% was $150,499
><http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01.html>.

This is for households, right? That is, single individuals are omitted from this tabulation, completely? (That's a question...)

Brad DeLong



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