On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:08:47 -0400, Lil Abner wrote:

On 10/20/2011 8:01 PM, jps wrote:

How in the hell can people afford food and cable television let alone
a mortgage? This is the median income?

The median income fell in 2010 for the second year in a row to
$26,364, a 1.2 percent drop from 2009, and the lowest level since
1999, according to David Cay Johnston at Reuters.
Where's that from? Last I heard it was in the neighborhood of 54,000.00
a year. That figure was driven up by Wall Street and the Northeast incomes.

Pretty sure yours was household and this is personal...

http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-j...ata-its-awful/