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Old 08-12-2015, 02:09 PM   #23
peter12
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post
Well that's basically what I was posting about before when I said that these figures have been bandied about since the dawn of time. Those are political arguments, and frankly they spin those to advance an ideology. The reality is that almost every metric (maybe even every metric) is positive since the recession. I have no idea how you could justify that the US hasn't seen a recovery.
An economy where wages have stagnated severely for the bottom 50%, costs have increased, and more and more people have to take second jobs, it is clear that this so-called recovery has not benefited most people.
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