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income

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UK /ˈɪnkʌm/US /ˈɪnkʌm/

noun

the money that a person, a region, a country, etc. earns from work, from investing money, from business, etc.

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Duckworth | TED

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Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how

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