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riversedge

(70,243 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 06:39 PM Nov 2015

SCOTT WALKER! Pew Report: Wisconsin No. 1 State In Household Income Decline

this is 6 months old but good today also. Reminder that WI still bleeding jobs.



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WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?! SCOTT WALKER! Pew Report: Wisconsin No. 1 State In Household Income Decline https://shar.es/1cJw0x via @sharethis



Pew Report: Wisconsin No. 1 State In Household Income Decline
By Susie Madrak

My guess is that the same Very Serious bobbleheads who have pronounced Scott Walker a "formidable contender" will delicately avoid talking about this study. Because FREEDOM:

Wisconsin ranks worst among the 50 states in terms of a shrinking middle class, with real median household incomes here falling 14.7 percent since 2000, according to a new report.



The Pew Charitable Trust report showed Wisconsin with the largest decline in the percentage of families considered "middle class," or those earning between 67 and 200 percent of their state’s median income.

In 2000, 54.6 percent of Wisconsin families fell into the middle class category but that has fallen to 48.9 percent in 2013, according to U.S. Census figures compiled by Pew.

All other states showed some decline but none as great as Wisconsin’s 5.7 percent figure.

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SCOTT WALKER! Pew Report: Wisconsin No. 1 State In Household Income Decline (Original Post) riversedge Nov 2015 OP
Sounds like the Koch Bros. experiment is a huge success - to the Koch Bros. bulloney Nov 2015 #1
keep 'em poor, stupid, and dependent on wage slave jobs Still In Wisconsin Nov 2015 #2
 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
2. keep 'em poor, stupid, and dependent on wage slave jobs
Mon Nov 30, 2015, 12:09 PM
Nov 2015

It's all part of the .1%-ers plan to own everything.

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