Their incomes, adjusted for inflation, have risen while those below them have not.
By one measure available, the average income of full-time workers 18 to 24 years old, adjusted for inflation, has dropped almost every year since 1976.
Per capita income adjusted for inflation is over 60 percent higher today than in 1974.
The incomes of most workers, adjusted for inflation, are sinking.
The total income of Americans in 2003, adjusted for inflation, was 4 percent smaller than in 1999, new tax return data showed yesterday.
Over a longer period, from 1989 to 1998, the incomes of the richest 1 percent, adjusted for inflation, grew about eight times as fast.
Personal income, adjusted for inflation, grew to its highest level in July and has fallen ever since.
Recent Government data show that income, adjusted for inflation, has declined.
In 1989, the median income of similar Manhattan parents with the youngest children, adjusted to 2005 dollars, was $143,000.
That compared with only one of 17 black families who had similar incomes, adjusted for inflation, in 1967.