Wage stagnation has become a running theme in America's political and economic debate, yet so many statistics get thrown around it’s hard to discern truth from rhetoric.
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There’s a $136,400 reason so many Americans feel they haven’t made economic progress
Lifetime earnings for men who entered the workforce in 1983 were much lower than for men who started working in 1967.
Union workers picketing outside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in 2013.
Median lifetime income slumped between 10% and 19% for men who entered the labor market in 1983 compared to those who started working in 1967, the study found.
But don't feel bad just for the men — women have also had a hard time.
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