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The Great Myth: That under their leadership. ‘Things are better off now.’ Since the Trade Union Bureaucracies and Social Movement Misleaders became Democrats and in partnership with the ruling class, since 1665 real average weekly earnings have dropped $320 a week to $160 dollars a week in real weekly earnings. By Roland Sheppard
Shadow Government Statistics Real Average Weekly Earniings Official real earnings today still have not recovered their inflation adjusted levels of the early 1970s, and, at best, have been in a minimal uptrend for the last two decades (albeit spiked recently by negative headline inflation). Deflated by the ShadowStats (1990 – Based) measure, real earnings have been in fairly-regular decline for the last four decades, which is much closer to common experience than the pattern suggested by the CPIW.
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