Um, are we supposed to be impressed that their income is above the median income of 2 months shy of 10 years ago? What, did we have no inflation for the last d

Um, are we supposed to be impressed that their income is above the median income of 2 months shy of 10 years ago? What, did we have no inflation for the last decade? Not to mention that things like buying a modest house and having two kids seem like pretty reasonable goals for a dual income professionally employed family, particularly one that had managed to save almost 1/3 their annual (pretax!) salary and probably 2/3 their takehome salary. So we can infer they weren't all that wasteful with money. So... if they're struggling, I think the point of the article is we can infer that many are struggling as well.