Letters to the Editor
From 1960 to 2014, the average house size has more than doubled from 1,200 to 2,600 square feet, automobile ownership has gone up from 1 to 1.7 per household and the percentage of household income spent on food has dropped from 17.5 percent to 9.6 percent. In addition, we take longer vacations, retire younger and have a plethora of electronic and other products that didn’t exist in 1960.
The reality is that all segments of society, from the poor to the middle class to the richest 1 percent, are better off today than ever before in this country. It may be that the income gap between the rich an...
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