Distributional channel
Monthly Income Event
Distributional reporting on the monthly federal personal-income release — BEA Personal Income & Outlays, paired with realtimeinequality.org distributional cuts. Real-time DINA-style decile shares as they update each month.
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Top 10% captured 54% of June income growth, Real-Time Inequality shows
Release date: 2026-07-31
The top 10% of U.S. earners captured 54% of all personal income growth in June, while income for the bottom 90% of households fell in real terms after accounting for inflation, according to new monthly distributional data from the World Inequality Lab’s Real-Time Inequality project. The figures, published in coordination with the Bureau of Economic Analysis's Personal Income and Outlays report, provide the most current distributional snapshot available, showing that the aggregate income growth reported by BEA masked a widening gap between high- and low-earning households.
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BEA reports 0.3% May rise in real disposable personal income
Release date: 2026-06-30
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Tuesday that real disposable personal income rose 0.3 percent in May 2026, the latest figure in the agency's monthly Personal Income and Outlays release. The release, paired with an update from the World Inequality Lab's Real-Time Inequality tracker, offers a fresh reading on both the aggregate income picture and the distribution of that income across U.S. households. Main Street Independent will update this article with the specific distributional breakdowns and saving-rate composition as soon as the verified data are processed.