For those of you who missed the recently published 2010 US Census findings, I suggest you read this recent article by the NYT. These days, I see too many “mean” metrics and not enough “median” metrics. Well here’s one I cannot get over: the US median income for a full-time male worker in 2010, about $47,700, is lower in real terms than in 1973. No, no typo, 1973. I still can’t get over it. All those productivity gains, all our great technology…is anything trickling down?
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