From $45 an hour to $11 an hour. Yep, that’s MORE than half.
Yes, it’s even a little more than 75%.
Apparently arithmetic is not being taught any longer. There is first a mention of a forty percent decline, then a reference of “more than half”. In reality it is more than three quarters without reference to inflation so after adjustment it is no more than one eighth. This would indicate that California construction workers have dropped from middle class to poverty level. Eleven an hour would barely support a single man here in SC where living costs are well below California level.