Thursday, February 6, 2025

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Industry standards boards are delivering results for workers, employers, and their...

Industry standards boards represent a new participatory model that can improve the lives of workers, address problems faced by employers, and strengthen services in local communities.

If wage growth is driving inflation, why is workers’ share of...

Perhaps some economists can tell a story where rapid wage growth is driving inflation even as the wage share of income is falling, but I’m not that good an economist.

Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 157.8% since 1979

These data are not top-coded, meaning the underlying earnings reported are actual earnings and not “capped” or “top-coded” for confidentiality.

Watch your wallets

The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.

Why wages are going nowhere

The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle.

Iceland becomes first country to fix this gender inequality problem

Iceland is now the only country in the world that has legalized equal pay between the sexes.

In the last 40 years CEO pay has risen by 937%...

America’s inequality problem continues to be the worst in the industrialized world. 

Job Growth Stays Steady While Wage Growth Fails To Take Off

August job growth was fueled by food and drinking places, social assistance, professional and technical services, finance, and health care.

Eric Trump: Wages Stagnated For 15 Years Because Of Syrian Refugees

That’s not how time works. Or economics.

The Wages of Sin

Huge segments of working-class whites—victims paying for the sins of American empire—are desperately seeking to halt change and re-create a mythical past. This is always the last, desperate gasp of a dying culture.

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The systematic erasure of climate change information from government websites threatens scientific transparency, public safety, and environmental policy.

Google abandons AI ethics pledge as Trump pushes for military AI expansion

“Is this as terrifying as it sounds?”

Tesla paid zero federal income tax in 2024 while GOP pushes more corporate tax...

Musk’s trillion-dollar company paid nothing in federal taxes while working Americans foot the bill.