return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-21 year ago63% of workers unable to pay a $500 emergency expense, survey finds. How employers may help change thatwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1532arrow-down116cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWe don’t have good WAGE data before 1964 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_real_wages_(red,_in_constant_2017_dollars).png but we also have household income data for earlier years https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/famincome.html but it doesn’t match 100% because what a household is differs (households used to be bigger in the 1950s) but you can see that 1950-1964 the household incomes grew quickly, so the 1950s were a period of growth, you were a lot better off by 1970
We don’t have good WAGE data before 1964
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_real_wages_(red,_in_constant_2017_dollars).png
but we also have household income data for earlier years
https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/famincome.html
but it doesn’t match 100% because what a household is differs (households used to be bigger in the 1950s)
but you can see that 1950-1964 the household incomes grew quickly, so the 1950s were a period of growth, you were a lot better off by 1970