Sigh, are you really really trying to argue that the US is not largely a 2 income household nation compared to a the single income household of the 1970s, there is little point in continuing this conversation because you are in denial, well under 10% of all households are married couples with single incomes, in the 70s this was in the 80-90% when you filtered out retired folks.
Today the typical household is double income, and the median household income is virtually the same as it was in the 70s, so we as a nation are being robbed blind, and have been for decades. It takes 2 people working on average to make the same actual wealth per year as it did 40 years ago.. if you think otherwise you really need to look around.
I am not saying folks shouldn’t get an education, but that’s not the problem with our economy today. The system has been destroyed and wealth has been given away by the oligarchy who care not about America but only themselves.
No, if you believe what you’re saying, you need to look around. The stats simply do NOT support your assertion. It does not take 2 people to make the same household income today that it did 40 years ago.
From 1970 to 2004, the median income per person, inflation-adjusted, went up from $28,100 to $30,513. So if you have both people in your household earning the median income, you would have $61,026 in 2004 as compared to having only $28,100 with one person working in 1970.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States#Over_time.2C_by_race_and_sex
And it appears from some other sites our inflation-adjusted per capita income may have gone up another 10% since 2004.