Sentence examples for middle fifth from inspiring English sources
Members of the middle class, defined as the middle fifth of households, paid 11.1 percent of their income in taxes.
Whites in the middle fifth were five times wealthier than their black counterparts.Partly this is because whites inherit more.
The bottom fifth accounted for 8.9% of consumption, the middle fifth for 17.3%, and the top fifth for 37.3%.
For those in the middle fifth, mean income fell from $40,731 to $37,184 over the same period.
The middle fifth of income earners saw their after-tax household income rise by less than 25%.
Defined as the middle fifth of the income distribution scale, the middle class does not need more income tax cuts.
The ONS just found median household earnings had fallen by 6.4% – the "squeezed" middle fifth losing £1,500 a year.
Only 31% of blacks who were children in 1968 and whose parents were in the middle fifth of America's income distribution now earn more than their parents did.
In 2010, 45.3 percent of wives in the middle fifth of two-earner married couples made as much as or more than their husbands.
Meanwhile, the effective total tax rate for the middle-fifth of Americans this year will be around 27percentt.
