Byline: Combined wire services
Several new economic reports demonstrate starkly the extent to which Americans' incomes have stalled, painting a depressing picture of workers struggling to crawl up a down escalator.
Together they give the Democrats fresh ammunition for what they hope will be a potent weapon in the election campaign.
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington research center, released a study Sunday showing that high school graduates now earn 26.5 percent less in entry-level jobs than similar graduates did in 1979. That study also found that after-inflation wages for workers with college degrees fell 3.1 percent between 1987 and 1991. …
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