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		amanaplanacanal 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There Goes the American Muscle Car "household income". Not individual. It used to only take one person working to support a family.

sokoloff 5 months ago [–]

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=MEPAINUSA672N

also supports the upthread claim.

a2dam 5 months ago | [–]

Thank you, I did indeed mean income and not salary (though real median salary for full time workers has also outpaced inflation).

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