America’s heart, soul, brains and muscle – the middle- and working-class people who make this nation great – have been beset for too long by sapping economic decline. So, too, New York breadwinners and families.
Paychecks are shrunken after more than a decade in which the workplace has asked more of wage earners and rewarded them less. The decline has knocked someone at the midpoint of the salary scale back to where he or she would have been in 1996.
Then, the subway fare, still paid by token, was $1.50, gasoline was $1.23 a gallon and the median rent for a stabilized apartment was $600 a month. Today, the base MetroCard subway fare is $2.25, gasoline is in the $3.90 range and the median stabilized rent is $1,050, with all the increases outpacing wage growth.
Read the rest of the Daily News editorial here.
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WOW!!!! The Daily News of all newspapers.
Don’t blame Obama for what Bush family did to our country.
Obama 2012
Hilary 2016
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Don’t blame Obama for what Bush’s gang did to out country and the world. Don’t blame, Take responsibility.
Obama 2012
Hilary 2016