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To: grundle
Despite the recession of 2001, the bottom fifth had a 35 percent increase in income (adjusted for inflation), ...

The bottom fifth increased its earnings by 80 percent, ...

So is it 35% or 80%?

32 posted on 05/31/2007 10:28:09 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Income included stuff not included as earnings, that didn’t go up as much.


34 posted on 05/31/2007 11:17:20 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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