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The Gini index is utterly irrelevant if the question is whether the typical American nicky katt household is doing better or worse. If you refer back to the historical income tables once again, you will see that the long term trend is that every quintile has been gaining, in real terms. This was happening even nicky katt as the Gini index for the population was steadily rising over the same period. Also, income distribution is only a Lorenz curve if nicky katt you plot it as a Lorenz curve. If you plot, for instance, the population in $5,000 income increments, you see a relatively flat distribution, that is flatter than a normal (bell curve) distribution around the median. So perhaps if one is looking at the George Bush years mean income in these quitles has fallen even though median income remained flatActually, median income dropped over that period, and, as you noted, the mean income for all quintiles also dropped.
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