The data is available from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov . The Economist's gloomy figures were right, but are gloomier if pushed back a few years as 1979 was a nadir any how.
> health
The US is off the charts in terms of health costs compared to other industrialized countries, and big business has arranged it so it is the only industrialized country with people not under health coverage.
> 401k
US Workers used to have guaranteed pensions, the 401k was a backward step, not some new benefit
Plus the fact that Google workers have all these things, and some other workers may have some if these things doesn't modify that wages have fallen.
The US has skyrocketing health care compared to everyone else, with some unconvered unlike every other industrialized countries, and guaranteed pensions no longer exist - not great arguments for an improvement.
People are not stupid, they know things are not better, despite think tank commissars trying to present ways that they are.
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