How to Use national income in a Sentence

national income

noun

• In the past two decades there has been a sharp drop in the share of national income going to working- and middle-class Americans.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
• The top 1% alone earns 27% of the total national income, according to the report.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
• The budget is rumored to be somewhere around the gross national income of a small country.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2022
• The ratio of the richest 10% of the population’s share of the gross national income (GNI) divided by the share of the poorest 40%.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2020
• With the costs of the Civil War looming, Congress imposed a national income tax in 1861.
  — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 29 May 2021
• In the long term, profits must stay within guardrails fixed by such measures as their share of national income.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2021
• Michel came into the summit with a draft budget at 1.074% of EU gross national income.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
• Over the last few decades, profits have become a larger share of our national income.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2021
• That's around one point slower than growth in national income.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2020
• The World Bank defines low-income countries as those where the per capita gross national income is less than about $1,000 a year.
  — Drew Armstrong, Fortune, 25 May 2022
• Imagine that your earnings have put you at the high end of the national income distribution for many years.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• So no country even pays 1% of its own gross national income, and the debate is over some 0.3 percentage points.
  — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• The over-all national income is higher in the United States with free trade, but the majority of people are worse off.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Some of those economic costs have already been borne in lower national income than would have been expected had the U.K. stayed in the EU.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
• This overrides the country’s national income tax, which ranges from a whopping 23 to 43 percent.
  — Laura Kiniry, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2022
• That’s the elephantine share of all national income collected by the 1%.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• As health care absorbs an ever-larger share of national income, many want the government to take over.
  — Noah Smith, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• The deficit for that year would stand at $1.7 trillion, triple today's figure, a gigantic 6.1% of national income.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• And as its critics predicted, the trade war has lowered national income and increased the prices consumers face.
  — Michael R. Strain, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2019
• Whenever the rate of unionization in America has risen in the past hundred years, the top one per cent’s portion of the national income has tended to shrink.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• The gross national income per capita in the Dominican Republic was about $8,200 last year, according to the World Bank.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• That’s 107% of the national income estimate projected by the CBO.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2018
• The Islamist militants -- who have seen many key sources of national income choked off -- have now banned people from moving dollars out of Afghanistan.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2021
• In a statement to lawmakers, Treasury chief Rishi Sunak said that the target to allocate 0.7% of national income to overseas aid will be cut to 0.5%.
  — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
• As a result, state spending as a share of national income would jump to a threshold not seen outside of the financial crisis since 1977, according to the IFS.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
• One big factor is looking at that gross national income stat -- per capita.
  — Ryan Struyk, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
• Neither the city nor the state provides an estimate for the city’s GDP, or the output of goods and services comparable to a country’s national income.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 June 2020
• Overall, countries’ scores on the index seem to track national income levels.
  — The Economist, 5 June 2019
• In the most recent quarter, corporate profits accounted for slightly more than 15 percent of national income, representing a substantial increase from last year, when corporations earned close to $3 trillion in profit.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• Russia is no longer remotely an economic power and has suppressed the minimum reporting of transparent national income statistics that is required to retain IMF membership.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024