We were so focused on Culture Wars that we missed how good the Obama Recovery was. And now Trump is going to get the credit for it.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-29/5-charts-show-the-strength-of-the-recovery …
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People keep trying to tell me that the jobs created since 2012 have been low-paid crappy jobs. OK then tell me how real wages of nonsupervisory workers have been rising faster than at any time since the mid-1990s.pic.twitter.com/PS0Fsr6b7B
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Anecdotally I wonder if the pay increases have been clustered by geography or education or class but I think I saw you say elsewhere at least the class one isn't the case? (I.e., the benefits disproportionately went to poor/lower middle class workers?)
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Yep, since 2013 or 2014: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/wages-rising/519114/ … https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20161017_cea_stern_inclusive_growth_furman.pdf … This has NOT been the typical "wage gains for the educated, wage losses for everyone else" recovery that we saw in the 00s and in the 80s.
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