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Oct 15, 2026
Michael KoufoidSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To get that wealth, they have to sell their home, and we need a home to live in.
Maria ShilaosHOST
The Survey of Consumer Finances says the average 50-year-old American is worth $1.5 million.
Maria ShilaosHOST
The average 20-something is only worth $81,000.
Maria ShilaosHOST
This could be the first trillion dollar holiday shopping season ever.
Andy FarnsworthHOST
From 2019 to 2022, the median net worth for American families grew 37%, but from 2022 to 2025 it only grew 2%.
Andy FarnsworthHOST
This is according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances.
Andy FarnsworthHOST
Walmart is gonna cover more medication and health-related items for employees at no cost.
Andy FarnsworthHOST
CNBC reports it covers more than 250 prescriptions, some insulin and GLP-1s for diabetes.
Eric ZwickGUEST
Um, there's real money there, but it's still so much smaller than this class we're talking about.
Eric ZwickGUEST
Then you have the Survey of Consumer Finances.
Eric ZwickGUEST
The Fed does a triennial survey, so every three years a field of survey.
Eric ZwickGUEST
You know, in this top 0.1% class of wealth, people with tens of millions of dollars, you might have a few hundred people respond.
Spencer LookGUEST
Think, you know, a Monte Carlo type of approach for the audience out there.
Spencer LookGUEST
We built this on top of a government survey, the Survey of Consumer Finances, which is a representative sample of the U.S. population.
Spencer LookGUEST
And then we model, you know, project as people go forward and work, do their career, kind of go into retirement.
Spencer LookGUEST
We are very granular with what we're doing, kind of echoing what Jack was saying with the mission and kind of goal of the center.
Ryland BartonHOST
Families headed by someone aged seventy-five or older are now America's wealthiest, while the youngest families saw their wealth decline in the past three years.
Ryland BartonHOST
That's according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances.
Ryland BartonHOST
It underscores how robust stock market gains have made wealthier American families even richer since the survey conducted every three years was last completed in 2022.
Ryland BartonHOST
This is NPR News.
Ed KalegiHOST
That story from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.
Charlie PellettCORRESPONDENT
The Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances shows unequal gains by race and ethnicity, including a widening racial wealth gap for Black Americans.
Charlie PellettCORRESPONDENT
The report shows the wealth gap remains wide, with the top 10% of earners holding over 50 times more wealth on average than the bottom 20%.
Charlie PellettCORRESPONDENT
The survey, which happens every three years, is widely regarded by economists as the most comprehensive data on the economic well-being of American households, including changes in wealth, income, debt, and financial security.
Yascha MounkHOST
So presumably, do you exclude those kinds of people from that statistic? And, and, and how do they-- uh, what, what role do they play?
Eric ZwickGUEST
So in like the wealth data where you think about how many people have more than five million in net worth, um, so from the Survey of Consumer Finances, we can guess-- get a good estimate of that.
Eric ZwickGUEST
Um, there are about five million households with that, that figure.
Eric ZwickGUEST
So, you know, of that group, three million are private business owners.
Ryland BartonHOST
Families headed by someone aged 75 or older are now America's wealthiest, while the youngest families saw their wealth decline in the past three years.
Ryland BartonHOST
That's according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances.
Ryland BartonHOST
It underscores how robust stock market gains have made wealthier American families even richer.
Ryland BartonHOST
This is NPR News.
Alex OssolaHOST
[upbeat music] The typical American family got a little wealthier in the years after the pandemic.
Alex OssolaHOST
That's according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, which is out today.
Alex OssolaHOST
The survey comes out every three years and is considered the gold standard for measuring household wealth.
Alex OssolaHOST
But the data also show a more complicated picture of who's getting wealthier and who isn't in an increasingly split economy.
Marcela SanchezCORRESPONDENT
Meanwhile, the youngest families have seen their wealth decline in the past three years.
Marcela SanchezCORRESPONDENT
The findings come from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, which is conducted every three years.
Marcela SanchezCORRESPONDENT
The report highlights how strong stock market gains have made wealthier American families even richer since the last survey in 2022.
Marcela SanchezCORRESPONDENT
Overall, the survey found broad gains in income even after adjusting for inflation, which slightly reduced income inequality.
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