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To: Raycpa
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.

9 posted on 06/13/2016 11:47:21 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: TangibleDisgust

My standard of living has greatly dropped.


13 posted on 06/13/2016 11:52:12 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: TangibleDisgust
huh? it is meaningful. it shows - at the very least - that incomes and standards of living have not increased in 40 years.

Without intermediate data points, this statement cannot be proven true. I believe if you look at the data, the mid to late 1980's, the mid to late 1990's and the mid 2000's would all show better earnings than 1973. However, under Obama, all of those gains have been given back to the point we are now below 1973.

14 posted on 06/13/2016 12:01:37 PM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: TangibleDisgust

It’s no coincidence that men’s wages stagnated as immigration surged beginning in the 1970s.


31 posted on 06/13/2016 1:34:38 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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