Reply #24: I don't know if "average household income" is the proper standard [View All]

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The average will factor in the baby boomers who are more numerous than any other group and established. I'm talking about young kids in high school or their early years of college who are working part-time and have to pay their way for a lot of necessities. I can't speak for the new generation of young Americans in their teens or early twenties, but when I was a kid, they were making minimum wage or less in their part-time work. I haven't heard of many part-time student jobs that pay that well, but maybe I don't get out much. Anyway, the fact that minimum wage buys you much less today than it did in the late 1960s is a certainty.