Since the 1970's, blue-collar families have seen their incomes stagnate.

By contrast, the top fifth of American families earned 27 percent more, while the top 1 percent saw their incomes nearly double.

Doctors are fighting for pay increases after years of seeing their incomes erode.

Because they've had enough - enough of seeing their incomes fall behind and their jobs on the line.

With the economic expansion of the 1980's, the wealthiest Americans saw their pretax incomes rise sharply while their tax rates dropped.

But in the next breath he said the country's biggest problem was that "middle-income job holders have not seen their incomes expanding."

No changes were made in parliament to address misallocated capital, even as most Australians were seeing their real incomes declining.

And whatever encouragement consumers draw from low rates, they often hesitate to buy when they do not see their incomes rising.

Investment bankers who see their incomes cut will often jump to another firm.

By comparison, the million or so college-educated women in this age group have seen their median incomes, adjusted for inflation, rise slightly since 1988.