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A Sinking Tide Sinks All Boats

Heidi Shierholz’s spin on this depressing data strikes me as a bit too college-skeptical, but the data itself is worth highlighting:

It’s still the case that a college degree has offered some buffer against a brutal decade for wage-owners. Folks without a bachelor’s degree have done even worse. But what we see here is that crummy economic conditions have been quite broadly crummy. Almost everyone is suffering.

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