claim: "the median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: jan 6, 2015 ... our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living standards of low- and moderate-income americans. ... in 2007, the last year before the great recession, the average income of the middle 60 percent of american households was $76,443. it would have been ...
evidence_2: aug 18, 2016 ... the g7 has the highest simple average, at 30.21 percent. larger, more industrialized countries tend to have higher corporate income tax rates than developing countries. the worldwide average corporate tax rate has declined since 2003 from 30 percent to 22.5 percent. every region in the world has seen a ...
evidence_3: the following chart compares the answers of people in different countries with the average income in those countries. it shows that, broadly speaking, people living in .... we have seen that the chance of being born into poverty has declined dramatically over the last 200 years. but what about the absolute number of people ...
evidence_4: oct 1, 2015 ... africa has the highest simple average at 28.77 percent. larger, more industrialized countries tend to have higher corporate income tax rates than developing countries. the worldwide average corporate tax rate has declined since 2003 from 30 percent to 22.9 percent. every region in the world has seen a ...
evidence_5: dec 9, 2015 ... after more than four decades of serving as the nation's economic majority, the u.s. middle class is now matched in size by those in the economic tiers ... although the middle class has not kept pace with upper-income households, its median income, adjusted for household size, has risen over the long haul, ...