March 5, 2020 at 11:53 am | Updated March 5, 2020 at 12:02 pm Bloomberg

The typical American man needs to work 53 weeks to pay for the basics of middle-class family life, and for a woman who’s the sole breadwinner the number jumps to 66 weeks, according to a new study.
That figure for 2018 compares with just 30 weeks for males at the median weekly wage in 1985, according to research by Oren Cass at the Manhattan Institute. For the median female worker, the figure rose from 45 weeks.