In this article, Mr. Grannis shows why the “average” U.S. citizen has never had it so good. (BW: Some really excellent charts presented here.)
This post is a paean to progress. The average person living in the U.S. has never had it so good, by any number of measures.
The Misery Index was invented decades ago by Arthur Okum, and it originally consisted of the CPI inflation rate plus the unemployment rate. A low reading means that inflation is low and unemployment is low, and that brings a measure of stability to the life of the average working person.
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