You really need to qualify your statement with a time period bracket. Very few people are saying that Americans are no better off today than they were in the 7

You really need to qualify your statement with a time period bracket. Very few people are saying that Americans are no better off today than they were in the 70s (most of your links use mid 2010s vs. late 1970s data points). Rather, the issue is that over the last 10-20 years things have gotten stagnant, whereas before that they were improving quite rapidly. A quick look at median income trend charts will show this quite clearly [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#/media/File:US_Real_Household_Median_Income_thru_2014.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...