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FBN’s Gerri Willis on Americans dealing with lower income while paying more for gas and food.
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Well when you talk about the bottom line there are few things more telling than your -- count forty -- making.
Is it more than a year ago was it less than a year ago.
It's -- measuring stick that everybody uses but for Americans around the country in come is not a good news story.
We are worse off than four years ago when the president assumed office assuming of course you -- employed at all.
Meaning comes nationally have -- to 50502.
Bucks from just under 55000 dollars and 8% fall in four years.
In swing states across country the news is this tape saying that -- take a look at Ohio where both candidates are campaigning today.
He comes up fallen from 50516.
Dollars to 4500749.
In just four years.
Now the good news unemployment has fallen from a recent -- ten point 6% to seven point 2%.
But for many Buckeyes the sting of the -- Great Recession never really left foreclosures for example remain high.
And Florida where obamacare is struck a nerve with the State's nearly three million seniors.
Incomes have fallen to 44299.
From 51867.
Same goes for Colorado.
Which shot in comes fall from nearly 60000 dollars a year in 2007 to around 55000.
And in Virginia which has some of the nation's highest -- -- based on average salary of nearly 65000 -- -- under 62000.
In fact only Iowa and Wisconsin have incomes they have actually risen in the last year but they're still down from 2007.
Now so didn't look at these states were residents have faced a loss -- income up 5000 dollars or -- say that's not that much money.
But consider this the average family is earning less while -- -- paying more.
For gas -- 134%.
More since Obama took office more -- food 54% more.
Even vice president Joseph Biden agrees.
This is dead leaders -- and this is deadly earnest.
How they can justify.
How they can justify.
Raising taxes on the middle class has been buried.
The last four years.
-- lord's day you can they justify.
Raising their taxes.
Buried over the last four years that's absolutely right Joseph Biden.
The cost of living for most of this is rising at a time when -- comes our curtailed we're getting -- -- It's a disaster for Americans.
And a story that cannot become.
