Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
May 5, 2008 – 11:33 am by WayeSimilarly, census data issued last week showing the rise of the super-rich and the concurrent stagnation of the middle class over the past generation implies that Ottawa's taxation policies are missing the mark, he said. - Newfoundland rushes to ailing Ontario's bedside, The Globe And Mail I wonder, what does the middle class income look like when assessed by generation? If boomers (or zoomers, as Moses Znaimer calls them, trying to imply some omph) have arrived at or approached the end of their careers, then their wages would be stagnant. And as we all know (and do we ever know, us X and Y gen folks), the boomers make up a huge chunk of the working population (still!). Maybe this is insensitive, but I would like to see what is going on for people my age!