Household Income is the wrong metric, as it doesn't take into account the number of people living in the house.
You could have two roommates living in a house each making 50k a year for a 100k Household Income. They both get 10k raises and one person moves out and gets his own place. So, even though they're both making more, their Household Income has gone down.
What you want to look at is Per Capita Income, but I get the feeling the Writer doesn't want to do that.
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first your example is ridiculous. What about the two professionals that move in together. That is the inverse effect.
household is a pretty good representative, they keep changing but not particularly in any direction
2nd per capita is meaningless as the top 1% would skew the value.
The problem the OP is referring to is that the typical (google the word median) american family has made little to no gains in the last 30 so years. All the GDP growth has gone to the top of the pile and a degree is not much help either.
Look at the graph below and see how things went to shit starting during the Reagan years.
And look at the top bracket income taxes rates during the good years . 80 to 90%.
unless your a 1%er you have been severely raped for the last 30 years
