claim: "the median net worth of american households hasn't changed much over the past decades, it's about $20,000 ... but congress' average median net worth has ballooned, more than doubled."
author: ari melber
evidence_1: dec 11, 2018 ... the broad facts of income inequality over the past six decades are easily  summarized: ... the census bureau bases its report on income and poverty on a  sample of ... census has statistics on family income that go back to 1947, but  because ..... wealth is much more highly concentrated than income, and ...
evidence_2: "the median net worth of american households hasn't changed much over the  past decades, it's about $20,000 ... but congress' average median net worth has  ballooned, more than doubled." — punditfact on tuesday, february 11th, 2014.
evidence_3: the top one-tenth of 1 percent of americans now earn as much as the bottom 120  ... bloomberg writes that the elite 400's average income more than doubled that  year .... class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1996 . ... if the economy were a person, its growth over the past few decades would've  ...
evidence_4: sep 2, 2014 ... was much less robust than it is today, and the choice of colleges and ... federal  loans, with median debt among college seniors amounting to about $20,000 in ....  income declined for all but the wealthiest americans, more families turned ...  lowest income quartile face an average net price of $12,300 per year ...
evidence_5: they're talking about gas prices, which have more than doubled since 2001. .... in  2005, the level of after-tax median household income, is $55,900, including  various ... over the past three decades, only families who have a working wife,  have seen real ..... taking the most conservative measure of costs in college, net  of all ...