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Re:50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010 by shazam on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:56PM (#3136948)
Not to take away from the point, but I'm always initially skeptical of statistics.

For example, this is also true:

50% of all taxpayers make less than the median EVERY DAY

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Re:50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010 by scarmig on Thursday October 20, 2011 @05:31PM (#3137160)
An actually interesting statistic: two thirds of workers make less than the average every day.

That should disturb you, especially in comparison to that stat decades ago.

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