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Betsy Devos is the Secretary of Education
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08/02/2017 09:07:27
 
 
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Education
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>>So you acknowledge that things got worse for middle and lower-middle class workers during the last 8 years under Barack Obama? :)
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>Yes, they did, but that's not the whole story, as you know.
>That trend started during the 1970's and has been accelerating ever since.
>Obama failed to reverse that trend.

Not quite accurate - median income (when adjusted for inflation) was doing better late in the Clinton years and during the GWB years.

I don't pin it all on Obama - however, life got significantly worse for many working families in 2013-2014 with the disastrous implementation of ACA and the change in the payroll tax. By that point it was crystal clear that Barack Obama didn't give a flip about working class Americans (you know, the ones he claimed would cling to their bibles and their guns).
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