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Distressing Fact of the Day

1:16 PM, Jan 17, 2008 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI
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David Leonhardt:

"For much of the last 35 years, the incomes of most workers have been growing far more slowly than they once did. In the current expansion, which started in 2001, the median weekly paycheck of workers has actually fallen 1 percent, once inflation is taken into account, according to the Labor Department."