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This means that there is increasing disparity between average (mean) income and the median income (that of the “typical” person, whose income lies in the middle of the distribution of all incomes).
The US rate of relative poverty (households at less than half of median income), at 17.5%, is also the second highest in the OECD (again just behind Israel).
This means that the average worker in a median country went from less than half a primary education to more than half a high school education.
According to a recent US Census report, the median full-time male worker earned $50,033 in 2013, barely distinguishable from the comparable (inflation-adjusted) figure of $49,678 in 1973.
Real family income for the median household in 2013 was 8% below its 2007 level and nearly 9% below its 1999 peak.
Mishel calculates that productivity increased 80.4% from 1948 to 2011, while median real wages rose only 39% – almost none of the wage growth occurred during the last four decades.
From 1979 to 2012, the real median wage increased by only 5%.
China’s median age is today 34.5 years, compared to 36.9 years for the US.
The median Russian will be even older, at 43.3 years.
This perception also accorded well with the median (typically poor) voter’s low expectation of government in India – seeing it as a source of sporadic handouts rather than of reliable public services.
Today’s trade bashing is what happens when economic concerns – including stagnating median incomes and, in some countries, high unemployment rates – turn political.
At the US median hourly wage of $25, each mile costs $0.83.
Simply put, gains in capital productivity are not being translated into higher median incomes, a breach of the social contract on which liberal economies rest.
At the current stage of development of many Asian economies, a 10% increase in the median income can lead to a doubling of the middle class.
And a new study by Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing, which analyzed the performance of 10,228 open-ended mutual funds and 2,874 separately managed accounts in the US, found that sustainable investments usually met – and often exceeded – the median returns of comparable traditional investments for the periods examined.
Ten years ago, for example, America’s elected leaders somehow hoodwinked the median US voter – who is most likely to leave little to his or her heirs – into believing that it was necessary to eliminate taxes on $5 million estates in order to protect small family-owned farms.
In other words, the problem is not that the median voter is unwilling to trade off growth in exchange for more equality.
Indeed, the 2002-2007 period was the only recovery on record during which the median family’s real income declined.
Liberal democracy has been at a disadvantage in the battle for the narrative because it tends to treat the collective self as if it were just a rational median voter in search of a better job.
According to a recent US survey, Indian-American households’ median annual income is nearly $88,000, more than $12,000 higher than Japanese-American households and more than $20,000 higher than the national average.
For decades, a rising median household income in advanced economies anchored the growth of a middle class that often opted for the political center.
But median incomes have stagnated, which, combined with the impact of technology and insufficient policy attention to the potential distributional effects of unfettered globalization, has gradually hollowed out the middle class around the world.
Median household income has barely begun to recover, and is still well below its 2000 level.
In the United States, median incomes have continued their seemingly relentless decline; for male workers, income has fallen to levels below those attained more than 40 years ago.
Given that taxpayers are thus supposed to finance guarantees for deposits up to €100,000 ($133,000) – the median level of Dutch household wealth and twice the German median – the Eurogroup’s proposal boils down to a massive redistribution of wealth in Europe, the dimensions of which are not understood by the public.
The United Nations median projection suggests that the total population of North and South America, after growing by another 15-20% between now and 2050, will remain roughly stable for the rest of the twenty-first century.
Median income in the US is lower today than it was a quarter-century ago – not because productivity has been stagnating, but because wages have.
Median household income has grown at an average annual rate above 3% in the last decades – almost twice the OECD average.
Even those who have moved above the threshold of extreme poverty remain poor and vulnerable: the number of people living on less than $2 per day – the median poverty line for developing countries – has decreased only negligibly, from 2.5 to 2.47 billion.
Median real (inflation-adjusted) wages have barely risen since 2005.
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