So many numbers...
I clearly remember when my father made $7,000 a year. I was maybe 11
or so, and I remember thinking (gasp...maybe saying) that I didn't feel
that I got my $1,000 out of that (there were seven of us in the
family). Remember "Kids Say The Darnedest Things"?
And then when I first came to Canada, I worked as a file clerk for the
T. Eaton Company and made $3,000. My husband worked for the U of T as a
rat lab technician and earned $6,000. We were so rich, we sent our
laundry out to be done. Those were the days...
Ursula
John McCreery wrote:
According to the U.S. Census Bureau (the top Google hit for "U.S. median income":
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/4person.html
the median income of U.S. families in 2003 (the last year for which data are provided) was $65,093, up from $56,061 in 1998 and $14,747 in 1977 (the earliest year for which data are provided).
Another document (http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf) reports that
Real median household income showed no change between 2003 and 2004.1 Both the number of people in poverty and the poverty rate increased between 2003 and 2004.
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