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Hoyt

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5. The median household income in 1970 was roughly $9,900. In 2019, it was somewhere around $60K.

Reply to empedocles (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 3, 2020, 11:13 AM

Jul 2020

That pretty much tracks inflation over the period.

Where the real problem resides, is those in the lower 20 percentile or so. That's where our focus ought to be.

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