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Wages aren’t stagnating, they’re plummeting

High school dropouts’ earnings have fallen 66 percent since 1969, and people with some college – the median level of education in the US – have seen earnings fall by a third. Reasonable people can disagree about what caused this massive decline and what should be done to fix it. But it’s a major crisis and people like Conard who deny its existence are just wrong.

 

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