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Post IRS Data: American Dream Evaporates, Amid Mass Immigration, Automation

The probability of American children earning as much as their parents has plunged from 92 percent down to 50 percent during the last seven decades, according to a new study of tax data and the shrinking American Dream of upward mobility.

Compared to people born in 1940, the “babies born in 1980 — today’s 36-year-olds — the index of the American dream has fallen to 50 percent: Only half of them make as much money as their parents did,” says a report in the New York Times.

“In the industrial Midwestern states that effectively elected Donald Trump, the share was once higher than the national average. Now, it is a few percentage points lower. There, going backward is the norm,” the newspaper admitted.

The study of IRS data report is here.

The researchers suggested the generation-to-generation loss of income is caused by a rise in economic inequality.

Most of the decline is due to the more unequal distribution of economic growth in recent decades rather than the slowdown in GDP growth. Increasing economic growth rates to the higher levels experienced in mid-century America would increase the fraction of children earning more than their parents to 62%. Spreading the existing growth more broadly across the income distribution would raise the level to 80%

But that claim assumes that the inequality is a cause, not just another consequence, of the economic factors that are reducing economic growth.

The NYT report also tried to focus the blame on rising economic inequality and offered to a list of feel-good progressive fixes that were not implemented, or did not produce beneficial impacts, during President Barack Obama’s two progressive terms.

Given today’s high-tech, globalized economy, the single best step would be to help more middle- and low-income children acquire the skills that lead to good-paying jobs. Notably, most college graduates still earn more than their parents did, other data show — yes, even after taking into account student debt.

But education is not the only answer. Incomes have also stagnated because of the rise of corporate power and the weakening of labor unions, leading profits to rise at the expense of wages. The decline of two-parent families plays a role, too. And tax policy has not done enough to push back against these forces: The middle class, not the affluent, deserves a tax cut.

Neither the researchers nor the NYT’s writer suggested that the federal government’s policy since the 1980s of hugely inflating the labor supply amid labor-reducing automation might be contributing to rising inequality and declining salaries.

Under President Barack Obama, the federal government annually imports at least one million legal immigrants, plus almost one million temporary white-collar guest workers and blue-collar guest workers for jobs sought by Americans. Those two million new foreign workers — plus the roughly eight million illegal immigrants in jobs — compete against the four million young Americans who begin looking fo

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