With all the variables in determining medians and inflation adjusted dollars, this difference is not meaningful.
huh? it is meaningful. it shows - at the very least - that incomes and standards of living have not increased in 40 years. this is not progress, this is stagnation.
Meaningless. Note that it measures earnings, not compensation. Benefits aren’t included, so the picture is incomplete.
Some portion is related to the collapse of private sector union jobs - and that’s a good thing.
The writer is either ignorant or intentionally misleading. Either case is sufficient to draw many adherents around here.
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.