Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?

Re:Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? by jdmichal on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:53PM (#9779656)

You also missed the huge transition from one-earner to two-earner households.

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Re:Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? by badsock on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:19PM (#9779870)

I'd frame that as a one-time transition from the 1960s to the 1980s, but things have been getting progressively worse for wage-earners from the 1990s onward as well.

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Re:Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? by pdiddy on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:25PM (#9780695)

Which coincides with a large increase in bankruptcies due to the "two-income trap."

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