US Income

GDP and Job Creation: A Grand Mismatch

Jeffrey P. Colin | Posted 04.30.2012

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Jeffrey P. Colin

As our leaders in business and government engage in continuing debates about how best to grow the economy, huge numbers of Americans are falling deeper and deeper into poverty.

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Annual Median Wage Falls To 10-Year Low As Number Of Millionaires Grows

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.23.2012

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Americans' wages are falling, perhaps a reason why pessimism about their personal finances is now the lowest it's been in a decade. The annual medi...

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The Crisis Of Middle-Class America: Edward Luce

ft.com | Edward Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exa...

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U.S. Income Inequality Has SURPASSED Guyana And Nicaragua

Slate Magazine | Timothy Noah | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the ...

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U.S. Savings Rate: Highest Level In A Year, Says Commerce Department

MarketWatch | Greg Robb, MarketWatch | Posted 05.25.2011

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The savings rate among U.S. households rose to the highest level in a year in June as income and spending were flat, the Commerce Department estimated...

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