Real Wages

We All Do Better When We All Do Better

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Top 1%, Income Inequality, Productivity, Ross Perot, Invisible Hand, Henry Ford, Alexis De Tocqueville, Self-Interest, Strong Middle Class, Real Wages, Lesser America, Erik Reinert, Nick Hanauer, Joseph Stiglitz, The One Percent, Economics, Business News
Stan Sorscher

Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.

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Bonnie Kavoussi

Americans Save Less As Economic Growth Remains Sluggish And Real Wages Fall

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Video, Gdp, u.s. Economic Growth, Spending, Government Spending, U.S. GDP, Gdp Growth, Economic Growth, Consumption, Savings, Consumer Spending, Real Income, Real Wages, Consumer Saving, Business News

At a time that the U.S. economy is struggling to pick up steam, Americans are struggling just to keep up. Over the last three months of last year,...

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American Earnings Now Same As During Nixon Era

The New Yorker | John Cassidy | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Household Income, Unemployment, US Poverty, Richard Nixon, Business News, Income-Growth, Median-Household-Income, Real Wages, Business News

The latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well c...

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June Jobs Blues

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: June 2011, Unemployment, Opportunity, Wages, Economy, Jobs, Real Wages, Election 2012, Productivity, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

We are moving closer to the jobs market as it will inform perceptions of the economy in the primaries and eventual general election cycle 2012. Monthly jobs numbers are now economically and politically influential. And they don't look good.

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