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That's like saying an Irishman in 1840 found a potato after 5 months of eating twigs and leaves, therefore is having the best time since the Famine.

This is the slowest, weakest 'recovery' in history.

Puhleez Sah' can I hav anotha'

It's still below 2000, adjusted for inflation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/business/economy/americas-inequality-problem-real-income-gains-are-brief-and-hard-to-find.html?ref=business
"it’s great news that men’s earnings from work increased 1.5 percent. But they are still lower than in the 1970s."

"Against the backdrop of the last few decades, the income gains revealed on Tuesday underscore how difficult the American economy has made it for average workers to get ahead. In nearly every successive economic cycle, progress came slower and harder than in the previous one."

"The data, which measured how Americans were doing six years into the economic recovery, show that incomes in the middle, measured in 2015 dollars, were still 1.6 percent below the previous peak of $57,423 a household, which was attained in 2007, just before the economy sank into what has come to be known as the Great Recession."

"Today, median household incomes are still 2.4 percent below the absolute peak they hit in 1999 "