Posts tagged household income
Now Or Never
Rethinking “The recession is over.”
“Between June 2009, when the recession officially ended, and June 2011, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 6.7 percent, to $49,909, according to a study by two former Census Bureau officials. During the recession — from December 2007 to June 2009 — household income fell 3.2 percent.”—
Robert Pear in Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling - NYTimes.com
The Great Prosperity to the Great Regression...
A New York Times graphic explaining household income, the income gap, and debt in America from 1947-1979 and then from 1980 to now. It is a sobering reality. It isn’t an illusion that my generation is doing significantly worse than our parents.
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The Most Effective Protest Sign Ever
A chart! A government-cited, statistic-based chart. via GQ
WE ARE THE 99%!
GREAT sign!
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