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Comment by ChrisLomont

Your article is dated 2015. You're ignoring a decent amount of historical growth. Here's a pretty decent chart to let you know how good your news sources are

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/the-chart-version-3-0-what-exa...

Here's historical wage growth reports from BLS. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/earnings-and-wages.htm

Here's 75 consecutive months of growth under Obama, a record: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/decembe...

Here's wage growth charts https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth

Here's median householdincome from FRED https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

Here's income data from Census, which you can download in Excel and analyze yourself. Again same conclusions. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...

As you can see, all of these paint a much rosier picture than HuffPo. And places like BLS and FRED and Census are vastly more trustworthy for data, since you remove opinion piece writers trying to get eyeballs.

>Edit: it took me 30 seconds of googling to find this, next time research your position before you make a fool of yourself.

Indeed.

parent ChrisLomont 7 years ago

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