Figure 7T
Share of bottom-fifth household income accounted for by wages, cash transfers, and in-kind income, 1979–2007
Note: Wages, cash transfers, and in-kind income comprise, on average, 88 percent of all pretax income for the bottom fifth. The other 12 percent is made up of capital gains, proprietors' income, other business income, interest and dividends, pensions, imputed taxes, and other income.
Source: Authors' analysis of Congressional Budget Office (2010a)
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