1.   Although the current expansion has surpassed the average length of postwar recoveries, it has been weak by historical standards, and income gains have been anemic.

2.   A combination of flagging home sales, weak income gains and growing fears of job losses have combined to hammer demand for furniture, appliances and building materials.

3.   A combination of flagging home sales, weak income gains and growing fears of job losses have hammered demand for furniture, appliances and building materials.

4.   But as long as jobs are plentiful and income gains are healthy, American consumers are expected to keep spending.

5.   But since then, the most affluent households have enjoyed large income gains.

6.   For instance, the site recently included an article on the income gains and decline in poverty levels among African-Americans.

7.   He says that Besharov exaggerates the importance of income gains reported by the government for all female-headed families because many of those families were not poor.

8.   Hispanics are also less concentrated in the region of the country, the Midwest, that posted the highest income gains last year.

9.   How many American worker-taxpayers can boast annual income gains of this magnitude?

10.   In Minnesota, higher profits in the service, wholesale trade, and finance, insurance, and real estate industry fueled income gains in the state last year.