Economic growth is not benefiting the masses, and inequality will sabotage any benefit to the few
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Congratulations, Californians. Your median hourly earnings have gone up by 1% since 1979, according to a new report from the California Budget & Policy Center. It might hurt that wealthy Californians have seen gains that are 40-times higher, but we’ve become accustomed to this sort of disconnect. Stocks rallied yesterday over news of revived trade talks, then slid this morning on weaker-than-expected jobs data. Sixty-nine percent of Americans say the state of their personal finances is the same or better than it was two years ago, and many are optimistic about the economy. And yet, and yet—that number for mid-wage Californians says a lot about where we are in the country as a whole. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/the-rot-in-the-obama-trump-economy-is-beginning-to-stink economic progress is not seen by the majority eventually this will lead to disaster
FF and plagiarism in one debate, pro's got the whole package!
Con, FYI, the opening sentence was stolen too; it was the title of the article from which he stole everything.
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