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Given that the Gini index for the US has been increasing year over year for the last few years the reviews US reviews income curve has a higher degree of curvature than the perfect equality curve. Now looking at your numbers and checking out the adjusted 2003 dollars. If one looks at mean income in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quintiles what one observes is that from 1999 to 2003, there is a decrease in mean income of the quintile from a high of 10,944 to 9996 (-8.66%), 26873 to reviews 25,678 (-4.45%) and 44,981 to 43,588 (-3.1%) respectively. So perhaps if one is looking at the George Bush years mean income in these quitles has fallen even though median income remained flat. Now looking around the census website one comes across this. There is a clear trend that can be observed. That not only for the past few years, but for quite a long time, the inequality in income distribution has been widening, as is shown by the gini index.
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