How to Use national income in a Sentence

national income

noun
  • That's around one point slower than growth in national income.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Over the last few decades, profits have become a larger share of our national income.
    — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 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
  • The budget is rumored to be somewhere around the gross national income of a small country.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 July 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
  • This drop in the government’s share of national income is in part the result of conscious choices.
    — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • 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 poorest countries pay 20 cents per vaccine, and prices rise along with national income.
    — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 28 June 2025
  • Since the ’90s, house prices have risen from roughly four to eight times the average national income.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • 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 stock market has hit high after high, while workers’ share of national income is at its lowest point in at least 75 years.
    — Matt Helmer, Fortune, 23 May 2026
  • 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
  • That’s the elephantine share of all national income collected by the 1%.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The top 1% alone earns 27% of the total national income, according to the report.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The integrity of a national income measure is worth protecting.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Economists also argued about what to include in national income.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • As a reminder, that metric for national income measures the physical volumes of goods and services produced.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • 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
  • For decades, the thinking goes, corporations have captured a larger share of national income at workers’ expense.
    — Scott Lincicome, Washington Post, 11 May 2026
  • What broke the math was inequality, which pushed an ever-larger share of national income above the cap and into capital income the tax never sees.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Roughly two-thirds of national income has historically gone to workers through paychecks, with owners taking much of the rest through profits.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Foreign aid makes up one-fifth of gross national income and two-fifths of the national budget, making Malawi one of the most aid-dependent nations in the world.
    — Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • But voters and residents are not tabulating a national income accounting exercise when a project appears down the road.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • 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
  • In other words, in the past six years, Americans’ borrowings have expanded around 40% faster than our national income.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • With the costs of the Civil War looming, Congress imposed a national income tax in 1861.
    — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 June 2021
  • For much of the Cold War, Britain was spending between 4% and 8% of its annual national income on its military.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The second statistic Rockoff considers is national income.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025

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