Saturday, September 15, 2012

Great Recession still slamming the middle class (NBC still blames Bush for Obama's failures)

nbc ^ | 9/12/2012 | John W. Schoen

The poor stayed poor and the rich got richer, but the middle slipped a few more rungs down the economic ladder.

More than five years after the Great Recession began, the lingering impact of the worst downturn in a half-century continues to deplete the standard of living of middle-class American households. (But this is Obama's recession, right?)

Median household income, after adjusting for inflation, fell 1.5 percent last year to $50,054, according to the Census Bureau's annual report on income and poverty issued released Wednesday. The poverty rate, at 15 percent, remained stuck at the highest level since 1993.

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