income growth

More than 50 percent of that group's income growth came from women.

The statistics on real income growth have looked bad for years.

Even concentrated income growth, however, may help the economy in coming months.

Over the same period, personal income growth has risen by just 7.5 percent each year.

Income growth had slowed, and the economy was growing only slightly.

They probably cannot supply enough knowledge and people power to keep up the 150-percent income growth rate of the past decade.

The national rate of per-capita income growth was 5.3 percent.

They have very little in the way of income growth in real terms.

But the economy is still missing three things: jobs, income growth and profits.

"Income growth picks up again, because of the national economy.

Income growth has been sluggish since the last recession in 1991.

Forecasts of income growth in the state have also been scaled back.

But, at this point, it looks like consumers will not buy enough in 1988 to give corporations a year of strong income growth.

"The lack of income growth makes it difficult to increase spending.

Consumers are continuing to spend but job and income growth has been slow.

"Income growth will tend to support spending by stimulating more production."

Consumers spent more and saved less last month, but income growth weakened.

In addition, data on construction spending and personal income growth during January were above expectations.

But income growth is not strong enough to support increases in spending at the September pace.

"All of the corporation's income growth in 1990 versus 1989 came from abroad."

Thus the following conclusions are based on a quite generous estimate of income growth.

Many residents are under financial stress because of scant income growth, up 2 percent on average since 2000.

And because they're more nervous, not experiencing the income growth or the job security, they are holding back on their spending.

From 1968 to 2008, women's work drove more than a quarter of all income growth in families with low to middle incomes.

Yet average income growth remained stagnant, putting pressure on parents.