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This estimate is based on <a href="https://www.irs.gov/filing/adjusted-gross-income#:~:text=Back%20to%20top-,How%20to%20calculate%20your%20AGI,Educator%20expenses">adjusted gross income</a> (AGI) reported on tax filings in the 2021 tax year, adjusted to 2024 dollars.', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm4bwot9g000g01t0ovo9si3g@published'}, {'data': {'text': 'This group keeps getting richer, too. <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/10/08/congressional-budget-office-wealthiest-one-percent-nation-wealth/">Fortune reported this October</a> that the nation’s 1% holds nearly a third of the nation’s wealth after growing for the past 30 years. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/global-billionaire-wealth-leaps-fueled-by-us-gains-ubs-says-2024-12-05/">Reuters reported Thursday</a> that “significant gains among the super rich in the United States,” has fueled a 17% spike in wealth held by the world’s billionaires.', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm4bwot9g000h01t0n6688f17@published'}, {'data': {'text': 'As the wealthy get wealthier, median household income in the U.S. has recently slipped downward. <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.html">U.S. Census Bureau data</a> shows that real median household income was $74,580 in 2022, a 2.3% decline from the 2021 estimate of $76,330.', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm4bwot9g000i01t0806n12i8@published'}, {'data': {'text': 'Both figures are under 10% of the amount that would bring a household into the 1%. They are also lower than the $107,000 annual income <a href="https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/housing-has-become-less-affordable-across-all-us-metros/">that Oxford Economics determined</a> would be necessary to afford a new single-family home and pay both property taxes and home insurance costs in the third quarter of this year. 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