OrangeClouds115 asked, so ...
The typical American wage worker hasn't gotten a raise in somewhere around thirty years:
[From the report], "A New Social Contract: Restoring Dignity and Balance to the Economy":
In 2000, the average high-school educated workers age 25–29 started out earning about $5,000 less real income and could expect slower growth in earnings than those who entered the labor force in 1970. Workers with some college started about $3,500 behind their 1970 counterparts.
Thing is, the typical American farmer or rancher isn't doing much better. (pdf) As the profits of food processors, meat packers and agribusiness firms have soared, farmers and the rural economies that center around them have been methodically and systematically crushed.