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disposable personal income
- The total amount of money available for an individual or population to spend or save after taxes have been paid. As an economic measure it is abbreviated DPI.
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Student loan repayments resumed in October, which economists estimated was equal to roughly $70 billion, or around 0.3% of disposable personal income, and could dent spending.
Goldman Sachs estimates that the resumption of payments in full would be equal to roughly $70 billion, or around 0.3% of disposable personal income.
"If we keep adding jobs at the lower end of the wage spectrum, but losing jobs at a higher end, that will lead to a significant slowdown in terms of growth in disposable personal income," said Yelena Shulyatyeva, a senior economist at BNP Paribus in New York.
Researchers cited a 19.4% decline in the S&P 500 index, flat disposable personal income growth and high inflation as factors in the 2022 drop.
The U.S. savings rate as a percentage of disposable personal income rose dramatically, hitting a record 33 percent in April 2020.
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