“We’re 49!”

The Daily Herald reports that Illinois’ personal income growth nation in the decade ending in 2016 is 49th in the country.

The information, from the Pew Trust, is in a column by Anne Marie Kukec:

Both Illinois and Nevada had 0.8 percent annual personal income growth over the past decade, according to research by The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. However, Nevada notched the fastest growth over the past year at 4.5 percent, compared with Illinois’ at 1 percent. Nationwide, personal income growth averaged 1.7 percent over the decade, the data showed.

Norman Walzer, NIU economist observed,

If there’s no job growth, then there are no income increases.


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