Quote Originally Posted by rb336 View Post
[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]That is half-correct. While the GI Bill put more people in college, unions were garnering higher wages for their employees, elevating the “factory poor” to middle class wage levels. Actually, that started prior to WWII and prior to the Great Depression.
Post WWII:
1. Tremendous pent up consumer demand for automobiles, appliances, and furniture which was unaffordable during the depression and unavailable during the war [[war production took priority). Plus all of the war workers had money saved that they couldn't spend during the war.

2. Labor shortages starting with the immigration restrictions enacted in the twenties and the very low birthrate 1929-1941.

3. No competition as the manufacturing capabilities in Europe and Japan were destroyed by the war.