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marfknox
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Posted - 10/03/2007 :  06:06:39  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Median earnings for ages 20-24 have declined 25% since 1969.

This is an article that appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal. My dad is the author. He spent 6 months doing a fellowship at OSU analyzing census data for this article, which will be the first in a series.

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/10135106.html?page=1&c=y

Also, Cleveland public radio did an hour long interview about the story which you can listen to the podcast of:

http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/soi/7656/


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Edited by - marfknox on 10/03/2007 06:12:19

Ghost_Skeptic
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Canada
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Posted - 10/07/2007 :  00:41:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Ghost_Skeptic a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hourly wages in Canada have recently increased signifcantly faster than the inflation rate during the past year, reversing the long term trend.

And the Canadian dollar reached $1.02 American.

And the federal govenrment is running a surplus.

Not that I am gloating

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King

History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler

"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson
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