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Do you think this is intended to summarize the shift in median income (generally downward since 1997)? If so, why not just discuss that? If not, the effects of
by astazangasta 10y ago
Do you think this is intended to summarize the shift in median income (generally downward since 1997)? If so, why not just discuss that? If not, the effects of that shift are surely confounding whatever it is they ARE trying to summarize (some nebulous quantity called "the middle class").
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Do you think this is intended to summarize the shift in median income (generally downward since 1997)? No, its intended to discuss the move of the income distribution to be less-tightly clustered around the median with more at the extremes (the particular release the NYT article is about talks about the by-metro-area effects of this, but the broader trend is succinctly illustrated in this graphic [0] from the December 2015 national-level report which preceded the metro-area-level one the article is based on.) [0] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/st_2015-12-09_middle-class-03/ http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...
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