The phrase "affect incomes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact of various factors on people's earnings or financial situations.
Example: "Changes in government policy can significantly affect incomes across different sectors."
Alternatives: "influence earnings" or "impact salaries".
How those values become culture and affect incomes is not a simple mechanism, of course.
A12 Poverty Data Fuels Debate A report from the Census Bureau, highlighting how welfare programs affect incomes among the poor, has fanned the politically charged debate on poverty in the United States and how best to measure it.
I don't know anyone in the Princeton economics department, let alone Main Street USA, who does family budgeting based on perceptions about how reforms in tax law or labor regulation will affect incomes five years from now.
How will they affect income inequality?
Frayling gave examples of how a difference in height and weight might affect income.
True, incomes are more highly correlated between identical twins than fraternal twins, suggesting that genes affect income.
This relation is not obvious, mainly because it takes time for changes in monetary growth to affect income.
But the researchers identified four broad factors that appeared to affect income mobility, including the size and dispersion of the local middle class.
Yet to acknowledge this is also to recognise that price changes affect income groups in different ways, depending on how they dole out their money.
Each would essentially require banks to show how their holdings would be treated under the other method, though only their own would affect income.
For one thing, evidence suggests that many people don't clearly understand how policies affect income inequality and grossly underestimate inequality of wealth.
