The Startling Truth About How Working Families Are Truly Faring In This Economy By Michael Snyder, on June 1st, 2016 http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-startling-truth-about-how-working-families-are-being-destroyed-by-this-economy Of course the plight of working families is not something that is new. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, wages and salaries earned by workers accounted for around half of all gross domestic income. But since 1970 there has been a precipitous decline, and during the Obama administration we hit an all-time low. In other words, the share of the pie being enjoyed by working families just keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller. There is much more including hyperlinks and graphs at the link above...