Incomes after 2000 fell the most among those at the top of the income ladder.

That is because the higher one stood on the income ladder the greater the impact was likely to be from the stock market crunch.

Damage is creeping up the income ladder, but the poor are being hurt the most.

In reality, financial aid simply stretches far higher up the income ladder than before.

Straight salary does not put these people at the top rungs of the income ladder.

If your family is poor, you have a decent chance of moving up the relative income ladder.

Its people are rapidly rising up the income ladder and spending.

At the very top of the income ladder, the gap is probably even larger.

Throughout that period, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for families up and down the income ladder.

"People do move up and down the income ladder with great regularity."