Jacob Hacker's article in TNR on how family incomes are less stable than they used to be in the 1960s and 1970s.
To my mind the one thing you need to know about the economic recovery and the election is this: Since 2001 real corporate profits have risen 62.2%, while real labor compensation has grown just 2.8%.
Since most of the voting public still continue to get most of their income from labor income, and not corporate profits, the apparent disconnect between positive GDP growth and public perceptions of the economy is no disconnect at all.
Posted by robe0419 at August 6, 2004 12:06 PM | TrackBack