A bill to require the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to provide estimates relating to the distribution of aggregate economic growth across specific percentile groups of income.

United States115th CongressS-3440Senate
Updated: Sep 17, 2018

Summary

Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2018 This bill requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis to include estimates pertaining to various income groups in its gross domestic product analyses. Such analyses shall include estimates pertaining to each of the 10 deciles of income as discreet groups and the highest 1% of income as a group.

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HR-6874: To require the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to provide estimates relating to the distribution of aggregate economic growth across specific percentile groups of income.

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6191-6192)

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