New York Times "You Can’t Feed a Family With G.D.P." The 2013 median income remained a whopping 8 percent — about $4,500 per year — below where it was in 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/upshot/you-cant-feed-a-family-with-gdp.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0