American Wage Gap Growing Wider And Wider...

The Wall Street Journal   |  GREG IP   |   March 27, 2006 08:58 AM


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Since the end of 2000, gross domestic product per person in the U.S. has expanded 8.4%, adjusted for inflation, but the average weekly wage has edged down 0.3%.

That contrast goes a long way in explaining why many Americans tell pollsters they don't believe the Bush administration when it trumpets the economy's strength. What is behind the divergence? And what will change it?

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