Posted on 06/13/2016 11:33:29 AM PDT by george76
The average man with a full-time job in 2014 earned less than the average man in 1973 ... shedding additional light on the perceived economic stagnation and frustration among middle-income Americans in recent years.
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the median earnings of a man working full-time in 1973 was $53,294 — measured in 2014 dollars — while the median income for a man working full-time in 2014 was $50,383.
“This one fact, tucked in Table A-4 of the Census Bureau’s annual report on income, is both a symptom of an economy that isn’t delivering for many ordinary Americans and at least one reason for the dissatisfaction, anger, and distrust that voters are displaying in the 2016 presidential campaign,” David Wessel, director of the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Give it another 15 years and it will become more obvious that the war on the traditional American family has been both cultural and economic. We are cresting.. That drop that’s coming will be sudden and dramatic.
>Middle Americans should be demanding a GOLD STANDARD.
CONSTITUTIONALISM should be demanding a gold standard. The word ‘MINT’ in our Founding documents has meaning as much as ‘shall not infringed’, ‘Congress shall make NO’, etc.
Full time used to be 40 hours. now it is 30 hours. Thank you, Obamacare!
the collapse of private sector union jobs is a good thing?....wow....spoken like a true govt worker living off a fat obscene UNEARNED pension....
now, its the govt flakeys that get everything...
Well in 1973 women had been staying at home raising their babies
THEN CAME.........
THE
PENUMBRA.......
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
then women started killing their babies at the rate of 2000 a day, so they could work.
Insanity sometimes does not pay off.
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