The biggest manipulation is they divide household income by the square of household size, which makes the bigger families of the 60’s seem to earn a lot less than they did. The whole thing is based on two studies funded by the same institute based on the same biased dataset, and diving into how they get their numbers is enlightening.
Ugh, which may be completely missing the causality. I’d argue that many people are having fewer kids (smaller households) soecifically because raising them has become so expensive.
