Household Income Decreased More In Obama's 'Recovery' Than During Recession

By Susan Duclos

Not only has Obama's recovery been called the feeblest recovery since the Great Depression, but now a Sentier Research report shows some of the actual data that hammers the point home.

From June 2009 to June 2012, during Barack Obama's so-called "recovery", inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent.

The breakdown:

Over the past three years, the inflation-adjusted median income of households headed by whites was down 5.2 percent, to $56,255. Households headed by blacks sustained a staggering 11.1 percent drop in median income. Hispanic-led households saw their real income decline by 4.1 percent over the same period, the report said.

The chart provided visually makes the point:

The Sentier press release is embedded below:

Sentier Research Press Release Recovery Income