Were we better off 40 years ago? Not really

Published March 30, 2011 4:00am ET



Have men’s incomes fallen during the last 40 years? That’s a meme you hear often in political discourse and a conclusion that some economists have reached as well. I argued the contrary in my February 26 Examiner column. Excerpt:

 

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