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
• Liberia’s next leader will have to work out how to wean the country off foreign aid, which accounts for over half of gross national income, and to spread the benefits of development.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• The United States, the largest global donor in aggregate financial terms, contributes just 0.2 percent of its gross national income.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024