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by Egg » Thu May 05, 2011 5:26 pm
Via: Yahoo Finance:
Schwenninger’s recent report “The American Middle Class Under Stress” has some stunning facts that highlight the struggles the average American is having getting a decent-paying job and keeping up with rising cost of living.
Here are just some of the sobering facts:
– There are 8.5 million people receiving unemployment insurance and over 40 million receiving food stamps.
– At the current pace of job creation, the economy won’t return to full employment until 2018.
– Middle-income jobs are disappearing from the economy. The share of middle-income jobs in the United States has fallen from 52% in 1980 to 42% in 2010.
– Middle-income jobs have been replaced by low-income jobs, which now make up 41% of total employment.
– 17 million Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree.
– Over the past year, nominal wages grew only 1.7% while all consumer prices, including food and energy, increased by 2.7%.
– Wages and salaries have fallen from 60% of personal income in 1980 to 51% in 2010. Government transfers have risen from 11.7% of personal income in 1980 to 18.4% in 2010, a post-war high.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ti ... 47274.html
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by 1972 » Thu May 05, 2011 5:46 pm
No help here but when will they/we gett bullets?
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by Egg » Thu May 05, 2011 5:49 pm
1972 wrote:No help here but when will they/we gett bullets?
What? Two zitis in the bonnet?
Why waste a bullet?
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by TraumaT » Thu May 05, 2011 5:50 pm
1972 wrote:No help here but when will they/we gett bullets?
Angry mailman + bullets, wow, I guess that makes you the bearer of some very bad news....
(Kidding, kidding, I know you're not a mailman!)
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by Pigeon » Thu May 05, 2011 6:32 pm
Bullets flying toward politicians might make them realize people are fed up with their policies.
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by Egg » Thu May 05, 2011 6:34 pm
That actually true. The plebs used to throw their politicians out windows in Prague when they were upset with them.
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by Egg » Thu May 05, 2011 6:58 pm
I no longer object to what the people who are robbing others are doing.
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by 1972 » Fri May 06, 2011 1:29 am
Point of clarification for the last time:
BE is a liar.
I am not, nor have I ever been a mailman.
/end of line
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by TraumaT » Fri May 06, 2011 1:32 am
1972 wrote:Point of clarification for the last time:
BE is a liar.
I am not, nor have I ever been a mailman.
/end of line
I know. I was just joking.
Sorry.
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by SweetGrass » Fri May 06, 2011 1:35 am
Egg wrote:That actually true. The plebs used to throw their politicians out windows in Prague when they were upset with them.
We can just
lock them out.
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