Causes of income inequality revealed and Democrats will not like it

Terry Jeffrey:
Liberals talk about "income inequality" as if it is caused by insufficient government action -- including insufficient taxation of those they call the "rich."
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The Census Bureau's annual report on American incomes, as this column has previously noted, presents data that answers these questions.

The new report is accompanied by Table HINC-01: "Selected Characteristics of Households, by Total Money Income in 2016."

It lists three types of "family households" and four of "nonfamily households."

A family household, by the Census Bureau's definition, "includes a householder and one or more people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption."

"A nonfamily household," it says, "consists of a householder living alone (a one-person household) or where the householder shares the home only with people to whom he/she is not related (e.g., a roommate)."

Of the seven types of households listed in Table HINC-01, the wealthiest were married-couple families, which had a median income of $87,057.

It was a steep drop from there to second place: Family households with a male householder -- but no spouse present -- had a median income of $58,051.

That was $29,006 -- or 33.3 percent -- less than married couple households.

The next wealthiest households were nonfamily households with male householders, which had a median income of $41,749.

Then followed families with female householders but no spouse present ($41,027); male householders living alone ($35,265); nonfamily households with female householders ($30,572); and female householders living alone ($26,877).
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Married couples with children make even more money.  It appears one of the key determinative factors is the lifestyle choices that people make.  This confirms something economist Walter Williams has been saying for some time.  If you want to avoid being poor, finish school and do not have kids until you are married.  It really is as simple as that.

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