Working Poor 6x Better off under Dems, Rich No Worse
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Another piece from today's NY Times that highlights some not-new data that is critical to understanding the choices in this year's Presidential race.
The real incomes of middle-class families grew more than twice as fast under Democratic presidents as they did under Republican presidents. Even more remarkable, the real incomes of working-poor families (at the 20th percentile of the income distribution) grew six times as fast when Democrats held the White House.
