Thursday, September 22, 2011

Only the most educated 3% saw wage gains between 2000 and 2010

Wed Sep 21, 2011 at 04:15 PM PDT


Welcome to another edition of Charts that Speak for Themselves. This one shows that we live in a country in which the 97 percent of the population without education beyond a master's degree
experienced declining income over the past decade. A master's degree! Enough said?

wages by education
(Matthew Slaughter/Dartmouth College)
 
All right, I have one thing to say. Remember this next time you hear about how union members or public employees or middle class taxpayers or pretty much any person who's not already at the top of the income and wealth ladders just needs to sacrifice to set everything straight in our economy.

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