Re: Not always joking, it seems

Karl M. Syring schrieb:
> On 16 Feb., 09:16, Matthias Warkus <War...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> Willie.Moo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 schrieb:
>>
>>> Today, we do not hear pundits speak of too cheap to meter - instead we
>>> hear pundits say this is the first generation of Americans that will
>>> not live better than their parents.
>> Note this has been said about the last two generations already.
>> "Generation X" came out in 1989, after all.
> 
> I admit, It was true in 1989 so it is the second generation getting
> screwed.

It seems that you can torture the statistics any way you like on this 
issue. Conventional wisdom has it that US real wages have been more or 
less declinining since the 1960s, without ever really picking up in 
between, but the German Federation of Labour Unions, of all things, 
maintains they have gone up 30.6 % between 1980 and 2000.

Has there been a gradient in the US HDI over those last 20 years?

mawa
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