'The Big Money Show' panelists break down the latest Census Bureau report showing median household income reached a record high in 2025, while the official poverty rate dipped to its lowest on record. 00:00 - Record Median Household Incomes 01:05 - The Closing Gender Pay Gap 01:37 - Inflation's Impact on Real Wages 02:41 - Black American Households See Largest Gains 03:45 - The Housing Affordability Crisis 04:28 - Mobility and the American Dream
President Trump is, once again, delivering prosperity in real time to Americans. His commitment is straightforward: real gains for working families. Higher take-home pay. Results that show up in the government’s own count, not in a speech. The 2025 numbers are in, and they belong to year one of the second term. The official rate […] The post Census Just Gave Trump the Best Poverty Report on Record appeared first on StoneZone .
President Trump is, once again, delivering prosperity in real time to Americans. His commitment is straightforward: real gains for working families. Higher take-home pay. Results that show up in the government’s own count, not in a speech. The 2025 numbers are in, and they belong to year one of the second term. The official rate fell to 10.2%, the lowest since the bureau started tracking it, according to the Census Bureau . Down half a point. Second straight yearly decline. That is not a rounding error and it is not a forecast. It is the government’s own household survey of the first full year back. Median household income hit $87,460, a record going back to 1967 and up 2.6% after inflation, the number families actually feel and what…Open
The nerdy, traditionally apolitical world of federal data is increasingly getting swept up in the Trump administration's push to control every level of government. - Across the federal government, agencies are changing how they collect and publicize information. More and more, politics and ideology are part of the equation. Why it matters: Reliable, unbiased data informs nearly everything the federal government does — from distributing benefits and enforcing workplace discrimination laws to responding to public health threats. Driving the news: The administration's moves in recent weeks span an array of agencies and types of data. Measles. Reuters reported that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the CDC…
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 1968 to 2026 Annual Social and Economic Supplements ; Note: Census identifies breaks in the series in 2013 and 2017 due to methodological changes; Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios U.S. household income hit a record in 2025, but the lowest earners barely shared in the gains, new Census data show. Why it matters: On paper, Americans look richer than ever. But broader measures of financial security show millions still getting squeezed by medical costs , uneven income gains and a thinning public safety net. - The 2025 Census report largely captures the economy before the major safety-net reductions in President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" took hold. - That makes this year's record income…
Household income in the United States has reached a record high, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
New data from the United States Census Bureau has revealed that household income reached record levels in 2025, along with a record-low poverty rate. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Household income in the United States has reached a record high, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. DETAIL: According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, household income rose to $87,460 in 2025, slightly above the previous high of $85,320 in 2019. Adjusted for inflation, this data represents an increase of 2.5 percent over six years. The new data also revealed that women’s income increased by 3.2 percent last year, although men’s earnings declined slightly. The income of the top ten percent of earners also increased by 1.7 percent. The…Open
The Trump administration's renewed attempt to rewrite the rules for counting the U.S. population could upend congressional apportionment in future elections and likely spark a flurry of legal challenges. Why it matters: The administration has proposed cutting undocumented immigrants and people without lawful permanent status from the 2030 tally, a sharp expansion of Trump's prior attempts to overhaul the count that could redefine who is considered part of the U.S. population. - "The current administration wants to have their own definition of who are real Americans, which is not the same as what the census has counted for many, many decades," says William Frey, a senior fellow with Brookings Metro and a demographer who has been a…
The proposals for 2030 are among significant changes that would upend a process for helping allot congressional seats and shape policies that address disparities.
