Name:   architect - Subject:   Maybe you just don't understand it Date:   9/23/2015 5:55:43 PM (updated 9/23/2015 6:01:20 PM)

Bottom Line:

Purchasing power peaked in 1999 and still hasn't gotten back to that level.  Median Income...peaked in the late Clinton years and declined during all of W's years (adjusted and unadjuated) and the 1st of Obama's, then began to inch up (unadjusted) in 2012 and has continued to do so with the inflation adjustment keeping it stable in real terms. Sorry MM, but when it is slowly getting better after 11 years of getting worse, a reasonable person would be mildly pleased not disparaging.

Poverty stopped going up 4 years ago after getting worse every year for years. The rate is now stable which may not be what we want to see, but it is a damn site better than continuing to get worse!

Your analysis of the uninsureds numbers is about as clear as the Chattahoochee in March after a 6" rain! In ONE year (2013 to 2014), that's 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days the number of people who did not have health insurance went down by almost 9 million people.  Down from 13.3% uninsured to 10.4%.  Down in every single state, even Alabamastan.  Down 22% in ONE year...unprecedented. MM you and me and every other person on this forum knows why!!!