Or maybe you won't notice the difference. You seem to have a very short memory. Did you forget how bad things were in 2005? So bad Pelosi & Reed took over the Senate and House in 2006. Democrats never win midterms. Yea, that's how bad things got.
Clearly you have a worse short-term memory than anyone, because things were so bad in 2009 and 2010 that the American people kicked Pelosi to the curb and later did the same thing to Reid. Yeah,
that's how bad things got.
Yes I remember. They didn't kick her to the curb. They didn't show up like they did in 2008 and 2012. The young people that voted for Obama didn't show up to the midterms. So they got fucked and got the GOP back into power. How did that work out for us?
https://thinkprogress.org/wages-hav...t-of-american-workers-ede9b2133989#.zacqroegx
Americans keep working harder and producing more economic growth but are not getting paid for it. After the end of World War II, the country experienced decades of steady economic growth that also translated into steady increases in pay for the workers who were fueling it. But that stopped in the 70’s. Between then and now, productivity grew 72.2 percent. On the other hand, pay for the typical worker rose just 9.2 percent. Compensation for the median worker, adjusted for inflation, grew just 8.7 percent between 1973 and 2014, or a 0.2 percent annual rate. Yet net productivity grew at a 1.33 percent annual pace in the same time. Things have gotten even worse since 2000: net productivity has grown 21.6 percent since then, yet inflation-adjusted compensation for the median worker grew just 1.8 percent.
What this means is that just 15 percent of the extra growth workers generated between the early 1970s and the present has translated into higher wages and benefits for them. Since 2000, just 8 percent of productivity growth has gone back to workers.
And it means that stagnating wages aren’t workers’ fault. People have been told that the economy isn’t doing well and therefore that’s why they aren’t doing well but economic growth has kept increasing at a healthy rate. Everybody’s wages could have grown substantially. But they didn’t.
This isn’t accidental, either. There are three dynamics that can explain this. 1. growing inequality in compensation, or skyrocketing pay for those at the top of the economy
compared to everyone else; 2. a greater share of income
going toward corporate profits and not wages; 3. and the increase in consumer prices that means wages don’t stretch as far.