Monday, August 27, 2012

"60 Years of American Economic History, Told in 1 Graph"

From the Atlantic:
In the 60 years after World War II, the United States built the world's greatest middle class economy, then unbuilt it. And if you want a single snapshot that captures the broad sweep of that transformation, you could do much worse than this graph from a new Pew report, which tracks how average family incomes have changed at each rung of the economic ladder from 1950 through 2010....MORE
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