Tag: wages
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.
Our Jobs Are Disappearing
We can't wait around for a 19th-century recovery. We need a new paradigm. We need guaranteed jobs.
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