1947 1.078 1948 1.105 1949 1.027 1950 0.907 1951 0.801 1952 0.755 1953 0.824 1954 0.585 1955 0.504 1956 0.511 1957 0.594 1958 0.445 1959 0.394 1960 0.441 1961 0.376 1962 0.434 1963 0.376 1964 0.335 1965 0.310 1966 0.388 1967 0.341 1968 0.334 1969 0.399 1970 0.383 1971 0.369 1972 0.335 1973 0.402 1974 0.537 1975 0.381 1976 0.328 1977 0.402 1978 0.417 1979 0.390 1980 0.323 1981 0.352 1982 0.294 1983 0.248 1984 0.258 1985 0.201 1986 0.165 1987 0.159 1988 0.142 1989 0.111 1990 0.114 1991 0.094 1992 0.090 1993 0.079 1994 0.077 1995 0.058
What is it?
Average 40-hour weekly wages* divided by the year-end Dow Jones Average.
* dervide from average hourly wage (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Series ID: eeu00500049) multiplied by 40, not average actual work-weeks.
A good statistical series to build some kind of political movement around, perhaps?
-- Paul Rosenberg Reason and Democracy rad at gte.net
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