{"id":5453,"date":"2012-09-13T04:26:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T08:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2012-09-13T04:26:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T08:26:54","slug":"household-income-falls-to-lowest-point-since-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/household-income-falls-to-lowest-point-since-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Income Falls to Lowest Point Since 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By YUVAL ROSENBERG, The Fiscal Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Median household incomes adjusted for inflation fell 1.5 percent to $50,054. That\u2019s 8.1 percent lower than it had been in 2007, the year before the recession, and almost 9 percent lower than the peak income level reached in 1999. The last time median household income was lower was 1995 \u2013 meaning it\u2019s been a lost decade and a half for Americans looking to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The gross domestic product has gone from $7.4 trillion to $15.1 trillion in current-dollar terms over that time, suggesting that families have fallen behind even as the economy has expanded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Articles\/2012\/09\/12\/Household-Income-Falls-to-Lowest-Point-Since-1995.aspx#page1\">Household Income Falls to Lowest Point Since 1995<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By YUVAL ROSENBERG, The Fiscal Times: Median household incomes adjusted for inflation fell 1.5 percent to $50,054. That\u2019s 8.1 percent lower than it had been in 2007, the year before the recession, and almost 9 percent lower than the peak income level reached in 1999. The last time median household income was lower was 1995 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/household-income-falls-to-lowest-point-since-1995\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Household Income Falls to Lowest Point Since 1995&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1524,2273],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-gdp","tag-median-household-incomes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Household Income Falls to Lowest Point Since 1995 - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Household Income Falls to Lowest Point Since 1995 - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By YUVAL ROSENBERG, The Fiscal Times: Median household incomes adjusted for inflation fell 1.5 percent to $50,054. 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