I’m wondering about the median income number. I believe I recall Prof. Sowell mentioning this number in his book, Black Rednecks and White LIberals and indicating that the small increase in median income reflected in this number is a result of decreasing family size, thus the per person income has actually increased significantly. This kind of seems like the case to those of us who lived through this period. I was born in 1959 and am absolutely certain that people are a lot more prosperous now than they were in the 60s.

Greg Marquez
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