North Carolina
In August 2003 Congressional Budget Office report shows that in 2000 the gap in income share and growth among various income groups was the widest it has been since 1979; related National Bureau of Economic Research data suggest that the income gap is the widest it has been in 70 years. Between 2000 and 2002, comparing two-year averages, North Carolina median household income decreased by $1749, or -4.4 percent