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Agreed, that is a very weird sentence when the chart clearly doesn’t show the same thing. Not sure what the author meant. > But middle-class incomes have not g
by soared 2y ago
Agreed, that is a very weird sentence when the chart clearly doesn’t show the same thing. Not sure what the author meant.
> But middle-class incomes have not grown at the rate of upper-tier incomes. From 1970 to 2018, the median middle-class income increased from $58,100 to $86,600, a gain of 49%.10 This was considerably less than the 64% increase for upper-income households, whose median income increased from $126,100 in 1970 to $207,400 in 2018. Households in the lower-income tier experienced a gain of 43%, from $20,000 in 1970 to $28,700 in 2018. (Incomes are expressed in 2018 dollars.)
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
The graphs in the blog posted are from this pew article.