information about annual individual earnings in america

Factual Questions
1

I’ve read (but i can’t find the stats to back it up) that

1% of americans earn more than $293k a year
5% earn more than 115k a year
10% earn more than 80k a year.

I also read this

http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Mon_Jan_8_124311_2001.html

which shows that 7% earns less than $14k a year.

median household income is $42k a year

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/2280038.stm

Where can i find stats on what amounts of american people earn X amount of money each year/hour, what the median household income is, and things along those lines (the american economic situation)?

2

Try this site in the Statistical Abstract of The United States from the Census Bureau.

It is .pdf so you will need Acrobat Reader.

3

Well… this may not not be useful, but considering it’s “in America” technically, I’ve recently seen this on the news: Mexico’s people are both the richest and poorest country in the world, with a poverty level of 40% and a “wealthy” level of 4.5%. I don’t know which figures qualified for poverty or wealthy, but it’s a good case against [insert name of your most hated of political party here].