Pretty obfuscatory fact. Inflation-adjusted wages are flat to declining. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-ba

Pretty obfuscatory fact. Inflation-adjusted wages are flat to declining. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us... It confuses the matter to talk about household earnings, which obscure the increase in two-income households. (Two-income households have more income and expenses for a given standard of living, since homemakers are contributing to household earnings and expenses in a shadowed form.)