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Idle rich baffled by poor people’s distaste for dangerous, low-paying jobs, Frauenfelder, BoingBoing 6/23
Identifying the policy levers generating wage suppression and wage inequality, Mishel & Bivens, EPI 5/21
Black-white wage gaps are worse today than in 2000, Gould, EPI 2/20
Low-wage work is more pervasive than you think, Ross & Bateman, Brookings, 11/19
The lost ones: The opportunities and outcomes of white, non-college-educated Americans born in the 1960s, Borella et al, 5/19
Grand Theft Paycheck: A detailed analysis of federal and state court records shows that wage theft is pervasive in Corporate America. Good Jobs First, 6/18
The State of American Wages 2017 Wages have finally recovered from the blow of the Great Recession but are still growing too slowly and unequally, Gould, EPI 3/18
Revitalizing Wage Growth: Policies to Get American Workers a Raise, Brookings, 2/18
Why Is It So Hard for Americans to Get a Decent Raise? Weissman, Slate, 1/18
Union decline lowers wages of nonunion workersThe overlooked reason why wages are stuck and inequality is growing, Rosenfeld et al, EPI 8/16
‘Middle class’ used to denote comfort and security. Not anymore Quart, Guardian 7/16
Real Average Hourly Earnings, BLS, latest report
Source: The Startling Truth About How Working Families Are Truly Faring In This Economy, Snyder 6/16
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/US_real_median_household_income_1967_-_2014.PNG
Poor Wages Send A Third Of US Manufacturing Workers To Welfare Lines In Order To Pay For Food, Healthcare, Young, IBT, 5/16
Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker’s Pay: Why It Matters and Why It’s Real — Bivens & Mishel 9/15
The Typical Male U.S. Worker Earned Less in 2014 Than in 1973, WSJ Washington Wire, 9/15
Source: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?graph_id=284109&category_id=
Current wages are worse compared to the 1970’s.
Real Wages 1964-2014
Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/10/Wage_stagnation.png
The missing puzzle piece of the global economic recovery is finally falling into place, Bird 6/15
If Employers Can’t Find Workers With the Right Skills Why Don’t They Try Raising Wages? Baker, 6/14
Raising America’s Pay, EPI; Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge, Bivens et al, EPI 5/14
A Decade of Flat Wages? Rios-Avila & Hotchkiss, Levy P 2014/4, 6/14
Minimum Wage Laws in the States – January 1, 2013 (en español)
Wage Data from State of Working America, EPI, Mishel et al
Assessing the Job Polarization Explanation of Growing Wage Inequality, Mishel et al, 1/13
Going Nowhere: Workers’ Wages Since the Mid-1970s, TCF, 1/13
The 10-Year Decline in Wages for Most College Graduates, Mishel, EPI, 10/12
Unionization Substantially Improves the Pay & Benefits of Latino Workers en español
Vast majority of wage earners are working harder, and for not much more, Mishel 1/13
Median earnings for full-time male workers in 2013: $50,033
Median earnings for full-time male workers in 1973: $52,421 [2013 dollars] BLS, 1973 is the peak earnings year. For full-time women workers, the peak is 2007.
What Families Need to Get By: 2013 EPI 7/13
Middle-Class Tightrope: It’s More Dire Than The Numbers Show, Hacker, Wash. Post 8/04