10/03/2026
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In September, the Census Bureau reported that median household income reached $87,460 in 2025. That is the highest figure since the government began tracking it in 1967, and it rose 2.6 percent in a single year. Income after taxes climbed even faster, up 3.1 percent.
Black households saw some of the strongest gains of any group, with median income up 4.8 percent. Median earnings for working women rose 3.2 percent. Women now earn about 84 cents for every dollar men earn, up from about 81 cents a year earlier.
The same report showed poverty falling to the lowest rate ever recorded. The official poverty rate dropped to 10.2 percent, the second straight year of decline.
Child poverty also hit a record low of 13.4 percent, and poverty among Hispanic Americans fell to a historic low. Behind each of those numbers are families who now have a little more room to breathe.
Tax relief is adding to those gains. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Trump signed in 2025, ended federal income tax on tips and on overtime pay.
It raised the standard deduction and expanded the child tax credit to $2,200 per child. Seniors received an extra deduction of up to $6,000, and families who buy an American-made car can now deduct the interest on their auto loan.
Working people felt that relief at tax time this spring. IRS data showed the average refund reached $3,521 by late March, about 11 percent higher than a year earlier.
For a waitress, a nurse working double shifts, or a retiree on a fixed income, that extra money pays for real things. Not a single Democrat in the House or the Senate voted for that law.
Violent crime fell 9.3 percent in 2025, according to the FBI. That was the largest one-year drop in the national violent crime rate the FBI has ever recorded.
Murder fell 18.1 percent, bringing the murder rate down to 4.1 per 100,000 people. That ties the lowest rate since national estimates began, a level last seen in 1955 and 1956.
The decline reached well beyond murder. Robbery fell 18.5 percent and burglary fell 15.8 percent.
Car thefts dropped 22.7 percent, and property crime as a whole fell 12.4 percent. Neighborhoods that spent years living with break-ins and carjackings are finally getting some peace.
President Trump sent federal law enforcement and the National Guard into the nation's capital in August 2025, and D.C. is far safer for it.
About 4,700 Guard members now patrol the city alongside local and federal officers. Since the surge began, law enforcement has made more than 16,000 arrests and seized nearly 2,000 illegal guns.
In the first half of 2026, homicides in the city fell 41 percent from a year earlier, and carjackings dropped 63 percent. Researchers at the Council on Criminal Justice project that D.C. will finish the year with its lowest homicide rate in more than a century.
The capital is cleaner and better kept as well.
According to the White House, crews have fixed 1,695 lights, installed or restored 1,143 benches, repaired 22 fountains, and cleared 152 homeless encampments. Workers are restoring the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the fountains in Lafayette Park are running again.
The cascading fountain at Meridian Hill Park flowed this spring for the first time in about seven years.
Illegal crossings at the southern border have collapsed.
From October through December of 2025, Border Patrol logged the fewest encounters ever recorded at the start of a fiscal year.
December brought the lowest count for any December on record. Border Patrol also went at least eight straight months without releasing a single illegal crosser into the country.
The Department of Homeland Security flew 296 deportation flights in May alone, a record for a single month. By midsummer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had already removed more than 356,000 people in the current fiscal year. That put the agency on pace to challenge the single-year record set back in 2013.
Twenty-six major drugmakers have signed agreements with the Trump administration to match the lower prices other wealthy nations pay. Together, those companies cover about 90 percent of the brand-name drug market.
The new TrumpRx program now lists more than 1,000 medicines at discounted prices. Popular weight-loss drugs that once cost more than $1,000 a month now start at $149. Eligible seniors on Medicare can get them for $50 a month.
The White House reports price cuts of 50 to 90 percent on certain insulins, inhalers, fertility drugs, and cholesterol medicines. Those are the prescriptions working families fill every single month.
In September, President Trump extended those lower prices to Medicaid programs in all 50 states.
The White House reports that prescription drug prices posted their largest annual decline since 1963. The same drugmakers pledged roughly $170 billion to build factories and fund research here in the United States.
The federal workforce shrank by about 249,000 employees in 2025, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Roughly 317,000 people left government service while only about 68,000 were hired.
Taxpayers are no longer footing the bill for a bureaucracy that grew year after year with no end in sight.
In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies took 646 actions to remove or reduce regulations while adding only five new ones. The administration estimates the savings at $211.8 billion, more than $600 for every American. Small business owners, farmers, and builders now spend less time filling out government forms and more time doing their jobs.
Earlier this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time ever, and the S&P 500 has set record after record.
Teachers, firefighters, factory workers, and retirees hold their savings in 401(k) plans and pension funds that rose right along with those records.
A stronger market means a safer retirement for millions of people who never set foot on Wall Street.
Japan, South Korea, the European Union, and several Gulf nations have pledged more than $5 trillion in combined investment in America. Those pledges came out of the trade deals President Trump negotiated. When that money turns into plants, warehouses, and data centers, it turns into jobs for American workers.
None of these numbers lowers the grocery bill on its own. A single mother in Toledo or a trucker in Kentucky still has to stretch every dollar, and leaders owe them honest answers. Those families have earned the right to be heard by everyone running for office this fall.
Every gain on this list depends on who holds power in Congress next year.
The tax relief, the border enforcement, the drug price deals, and the cuts to the bureaucracy all need a Congress willing to defend them.
Democrats opposed the tax cuts and fought these border policies at nearly every turn.
Hand them the gavel, and the record above becomes the first thing they try to undo.
The choice on November 3 belongs to you. Look at the facts, talk with your family and neighbors, and make your voice heard at the ballot box.
