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2023-05-08 18:25:32 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

This video claims recent college graduates’ income averaged $33,700 in the early 1980s, and then adjusts this for inflation to $102,000. But the $33,700 figure is already adjusted for inflation. Unadjusted average income of recent grads in 1981 was $15,200. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_381.asp

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• This video claims recent college graduates’ income averaged $33,700 in the early 1980s, and then adjusts this for inflation to $102,000. But the $33,700 figure is already adjusted for inflation. Unadjusted average income of recent grads in 1981 was $15,200. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_381.asp