My guess is that the same Very Serious bobbleheads who have
pronounced Scott Walker a "formidable contender" will delicately avoid
talking about this study.
Because FREEDOM:
Wisconsin ranks worst among the 50 states
in terms of a shrinking middle class, with real median household
incomes here falling 14.7 percent since 2000, according to a new report.
The Pew Charitable Trust
report showed Wisconsin with the largest decline in the percentage of
families considered "middle class," or those earning between 67 and 200
percent of their state’s median income.
In 2000, 54.6 percent of Wisconsin families fell into the middle
class category but that has fallen to 48.9 percent in 2013, according to
U.S. Census figures compiled by Pew.
All other states showed some decline but none as great as Wisconsin’s 5.7 percent figure. READ MORE
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