what are the income generating sources of your family ? Source of income how to make money Additional article information Abstract Attention has recently been focused on wealth as a source of long-term economic security and on wealth ownership as a crucial aspect of the racial economic divisions in the United States. This literature, however has been concerned primarily with the wealth gap between poor and middle-class families, and between the white and black middle class. In this paper, we investigate the incomes of families at the top and bottom of the family income distribution. We examine the sources of income and the demographic characteristics of these high-income and low-income families using family level data from the 1988-2003 Current Population Surveys. what are the income generating sources of your family We find that, at the bottom of the distribution, transfer income is the major income source; in particular, income from social security, supplemental security, and public ...