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> Where today’s 25-year-olds went to college, grouped by their parents’ income Their parents' income relative to what... The city their parent works or lives

> Where today’s 25-year-olds went to college, grouped by their parents’ income Their parents' income relative to what... The city their parent works or lives in? The state? Country-wide? Seems like an important thing to clarify. You can be in the top 5–10% in a small blue-collar town and still middle of the road across the country.

dmoy 10y ago
In any context I've ever seen, income percentiles are always nation-wide. Re-read OP, didn't see them explicitly call it out, but they did implicitly mention "[percent] of American families" in places, so likely it's nation here too.
jsin05 10y ago
Article has a bad way of representing how they use their data points but the data is nationwide income percentiles. The top 1% household income is > $630k