1980 - the birth of neoliberalism.

Reagan was the beginning of the Republican party that we see today. More interested in power than people.

Most of Americans are poor, they dont even have full medical Insurance compare to the citizens of EU & UK let alone vacations home or a nice car. They live hand to mouth, cant send their kids to decent schools or Unis.

Trickle Down never made sense, and neither did offshoring either Good for Wall Street tho

And then Clintonomics helped, no?

Yep. He started all of this.

Don't forget Nixon started it off when he closed the gold window.

What average American worker? Not average Blk families

I wonder why the 80’s was the best decade?

Single income, middle class families were prevalent.