Why, oh why, would anyone protest the
current financial state of this country?
The average individual now has $1,315 less in disposable income than he or she did three years ago at the onset of the Great Recession – even though the recession ended, technically speaking, in mid-2009...the most dramatic drop in the US standard of living since at least 1960? One factor is stagnant incomes: Real median income is down 9.8 percent since the start of the recession through this June
But
what of the the 1%?
...median CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 [to an median of $9 million]
[cross-posted at
Firedoglake]
