“But over the past 25 years, the economy has grown 83 percent, after adjusting for inflation — and the typical family’s income hasn’t budged. In that time, corporate profits doubled as a share of the economy. Workers today produce nearly twice as many goods and services per hour on the job as they did in 1989, but as a group, they get less of the nation’s economic pie. In 81 percent of America’s counties, the median income is lower today than it was 15 years ago.”
Included –an active map of the USA that shows when every single county stopped growing. The YELLOW counties are the current champs – these are the fracking counties and the outer suburbs of Washington DC .
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