MEDICAL COSTS In general, wealthier countries spend a bigger share of their national incomes on medical care than poorer ones.
Jersey has one of the highest per-capita incomes on earth, yet few commodities appear to have greater value on the island than discretion.
The Weisses are among nearly 100 homeowners with relatively low incomes on Long Island who are taking advantage of the one-year-old program.
— spend only a relatively small share of their high incomes on necessities.
Poor Americans will suffer most, because they spend the largest share of their incomes on food.
Half a million New Yorkers now spend more than 50percentt of their incomes on housing.
Hordes of them duped unsuspecting lenders, don't you know, by falsifying their incomes on loan documents.
In Haryana, farmers with electricity spent 25% of their incomes on it and on repairing burnt-out pump-engines; those without electricity spent 31% of their incomes on diesel.
Figures from some American schemes suggest workers are contributing less than 7% of their incomes on average.
At the moment, nearly 60 percent of city renters spend more than 35 percent of their incomes on housing.
The industrial workers surveyed in that year spent, on average, three-quarters of their incomes on food, shelter and clothing.
