Your table 2A shows a real decline of 1% in the wages of college graduates (but no further education) from 1973-1997, but a real increase of 5% for the same group from 1979-1997. I love your technique, though, in order to prove real wages are falling, you simply exclude those groups whose real wages are rising. LOL
And since you persist in mis-reading my graph, let me ask you, since when is a drop in the rate of increase in something considered a drop in something's level? Please, don't ask a Democrat.
1. The only group that showed an increase in real wages from 1973-97 was the college plus group. All other groups showed declines. The real increase from 1989-97 for the college educated did not make up the loss from the prior period. There was a net loss for this group for the entire period.
2. Your graph does not show a drop in the rate of increase - it shows that real wages are lower now than they were in 1973.
3. Grow up.