84 PERCENT HAVE
NO INCREASE IN INCOME
“In Manchester [New Hampshire], Bill Clinton tried to
make sense of the uprising. ‘I understand people who get madder
every dav when they keep reading we're the best-performing economy
in the world,’ he said. ‘We've grown fourteen milIion jobs in five years
and yet eighty-four per cent of the people haven't had an increase in their
income since the crash.’ Wages have been stagnant for so long, he said,
that it was a wonder that it had taken this many years for the electorate to
erupt. In New Hampshire, Sanders received sixty per cent of the vote and
[Hillary] Clinton thirty-eight per cent - one of the worst electoral defeats that
either Clinton had ever suffered. “
make sense of the uprising. ‘I understand people who get madder
every dav when they keep reading we're the best-performing economy
in the world,’ he said. ‘We've grown fourteen milIion jobs in five years
and yet eighty-four per cent of the people haven't had an increase in their
income since the crash.’ Wages have been stagnant for so long, he said,
that it was a wonder that it had taken this many years for the electorate to
erupt. In New Hampshire, Sanders received sixty per cent of the vote and
[Hillary] Clinton thirty-eight per cent - one of the worst electoral defeats that
either Clinton had ever suffered. “
Ryan Lizza, “The Great Divide, Clinton, Sanders and the
Future
of the Democratic Party,” New Yorker, March 21, 2016, pp: 38-44 (39).
of the Democratic Party,” New Yorker, March 21, 2016, pp: 38-44 (39).
