From the article: “There are now nearly 13 million more U.S. jobs than there were in 2000, for instance, but if median household income is essentially the same, that’s de facto evidence that many jobs pay less than they used to. Housing and financial net worth are indeed at or near new highs, but if the gains are clustered among the wealthy that doesn’t tell you anything about the fortune of the middle or lower classes. Meanwhile, we know income inequality has worsened, meaning the haves have more and the have-nots – well, they flocked to Donald Trump (and his Democratic populist cousin, Bernie Sanders).”
Wow.
In the chart he has the unemployment rate at around 5%. We all know that is baloney. It is much higher than that.
They need to provide a chart showing #’s on food stamps, #’s on unemployment & #’s on disability for the full picture.
Politics is always local and the focus is always the economy. Always has been Always will be.
50% of Americans have below average IQs?
What year was it that I last had a good steak?
The article is wrong. What matters is that the GOP has failed to stop the liberal agenda despite winning the House and then the Senate. The economy may be a contributing factor, but to say it’s the only one is agenda-driven way of trying to give hope to the liberals. Come November, they are toast.
Median, not average. 1/5 or 20% of households have not one person in the household working.
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