USA TODAY: ….Inflation-adjusted median household income increased 4%, from $49,434 to $51,413, from August to December, according to a study released Thursday by Sentier Research. That’s the biggest jump since the start of the recession in December 2007, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the economic research firm.
The rise coincides with stronger job growth, modest wage increases, a longer workweek and easing inflation. “We seem to have had a turning point,” says Gordon Green, co-author of the report and a former economist at the U.S. Census Bureau…
Real median household income is still 7% lower than it was in December 2007 and 3.9% lower than in June 2009, when the recession officially ended, the study says. Americans’ income continued to fall in the recovery, Sentier data show, as more workers sought fewer jobs and many of the unemployed took lower-level positions to get by… (more)
