Wage Stagnation

More And More Workers Claim Companies Are Withholding Pay

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Great Speed Up, Wages, Labor Law, Wage Stagnation, Slideexpand, Unpaid Overtime, Overtime Pay, Labor, Video, Wage and Hours Lawsuits, Salary, Overtime, Wage and Hour, Business News

Do American companies have a problem with paying their employees? A growing number of workers seem to think so. Collective action lawsuits alleging...

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Inequality's Rising, But It's Not The Kind You Think

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Auto Loans, Income Gap, Debt, Video, Earning Gap, Consumer Debt, Income Inequality, Student Debt, Inflation, Wage Gap, Wage Stagnation, Credit Card Debt, Debt Inequality, Personal Debt, Business News

There's a gap between America's richest citizens and everybody else. And that gap has been growing larger for years. No, it's not income inequality...

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Manufacturing Companies Considering Moving Jobs Back To U.S. From China, Survey Finds

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Video, Manufacturing Wages, u.s. Wages, Jobs, Manufacturing, Wage Stagnation, U.S. Manufacturing, China Wages, China, Manufacturing Jobs, American Manufacturing, China Manufacturing, Business News

Manufacturing work might actually be coming back to America. More than one-third of executives at big manufacturing firms say they're either consid...

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Don't Worry, Guys, Wall Street Salaries Went Up Last Year

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Video, Banker Pay, Wall Street, Financial Sector, Occupy Wall Street, Banker Bonuses, Wage Stagnation, Wall Street Salaries, Big Banks, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street Pay, Business News

Ask many of those on Wall Street, and they'll tell you of an industry grappling with a terrible state of affairs. But for those lucky enough to have k...

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Improved Hiring Forecasts May Not Be All Good News For Workers

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Job Market, Labor Market, Unemployment, Jobs 2012, Wages, Employment, Middle Class, Hiring Forecast, Elections 2012, Hiring, Manufacturing, Jobs, Wage Stagnation, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Hiring 2012, Video, Business News

The hiring outlook seems to be improving, according to some forecasts. What that means for the actual wages has yet to be decided. A number of rep...

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Foreign Company Uses Cheap U.S. Labor As Reason To Lower Wages

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: India, U.S. Economy, Income Inequality, Wages, Middle Class, Manufacturing, Globalization, Wage Stagnation, Cheap Labor, Labor Unions, Canada, Working Class, Outsourcing, Labor, Minimum Wage, Ikea, Unemployment, Video, Business News

The near-standstill in wage growth for American workers hasn't just been good for their employers. It's turning out to be a potential bargaining chip ...

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The 99 Percent: Income Inequality by the Numbers

Jason Salzman | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Top 1 Percent, Income Gap, Wage Stagnation, Wealth, Wealth Gap, Income Inequality, Denver News

In all the hubbub of police marching in riot gear and protestors fleeing, chroniclers of the Occupy Movement sometimes forget to remind us what's at the heart of the matter. So, here's a crib sheet for anyone writing about Occupy in 2012.

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Both Public And Private Sector Wages Barely Grew Over Twelve Months

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.23.2012

Whether you work for the government or the private sector, it's likely your salary didn't go up much in 2011, but federal workers saw their wages grow...

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Three-Fourths Of Americans Say The Rich Have Too Much Power: Poll

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: 1 Percent, 99 Percent, The One Percent, Unemployment, Poverty, Income Inequality, Occupy Wall Street Survey, Occupy Wall Street, We Are the 99 Percent, Top 1 Percent, Occupy Wall Street Poll, Wage Stagnation, Video, Business News

The major contention of Occupy Wall Street -- that America is a country where a tiny slice of the population controls a disproportionate amount of the...

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Invisible Americans: The Overlooked Millions Inside Those Job Numbers

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Under-Employment, Payroll Tax Deduction, Social Security, Wage Stagnation, Unemployment, Unions, Middle Class, Employment, Jobs, Politics News

People in Washington over-complicate the debate by tinkering at the margins: tax-break this, incentive that. Those things will have some effect, but there's a simpler and better way to fix the joblessness problem: put people to work.

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Nearly Half Of All Households Lack Basic Economic Security

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Video, Earning Gap, Income Inequality, Third World America, Gender Wage Gap, Wider Opportunities for Women, Wage Stagnation, Economic Security, Wage Gap, Hispanics, African Americans, Basic Needs, Economic Insecurity, Business News

There are certain basic costs that every household runs up -- food costs, medical expenses, utility bills. And almost half of all Americans are in dan...

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COOs Got More Bonuses, Bigger Paychecks In 2010: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: CEO Pay, Chief Operating Officers, Poverty, Peer Benchmarking, Executive Pay, Equilar, Income Inequality, Ceos, COO Pay, Top 1 Percent, Wage Stagnation, Coos, Executive Compensation, Video, Business News

CEOs aren't the only ones whose paychecks keep getting bigger. For COOs, or chief operating officers, 2010 was a very good year. Many COOs experien...

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One Percenters' Income Skyrocketed In Last Three Decades

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Income Gap, Video, Income Inequality, Economy, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Mind the Gap, Great Divergence, Gilded Age, Economic Recovery, Wage Stagnation, New Gilded Age, Unions, Congressional Budget Office, Business News

WASHINGTON -- America's 99 percent are not just imagining it. The gap between the incomes of the rich and poor in this new Gilded Age is strikingly br...

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More Than Half Of All Americans Didn't Go Out To Eat Last Year: Census Bureau

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Hunger, Video, Dining, Dining Out, Income Inequality, Restaurants, Hunger in America, Disposable Income, Food Insecurity, Food, Eating, Wage Stagnation, Basic Needs, Business News

More than half of all Americans say they've recently gone a year without dining out, in what may be one of the clearest reflections yet of how the lis...

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Executive Pay Spiraling Upward As Corporations Race To Pay Their Top Brass The Most

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Poverty, Executive Pay, Peer Benchmarking, Third World America, Income Inequality, Corporate America, Corporations, Salary, Occupy Wall Street, Wage Stagnation, Executive Compensation, Income, Corporate Salaries, Video, Business News

The American economy may be faltering, but corporate executives needn't worry: Regardless of how well they perform, each one of them stands a good cha...

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Middle-Class Americans More Productive, But Earning Less: Report

The Huffington Post | Janell Ross | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Union Wage Pressure, Employment Policy Network, Wages, Middle Class, Wage Gap, Wage Stagnation, Very Rich, Unions, Productivity, Business News

American workers' productivity has soared over the last 30 years, but that extra output hasn't translating into higher earnings for the American middl...

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How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Income Gap, Wealthy, Middle Class Wages, Income Inequality, Third World America, Great Recession, Raghuram Rajan, Emmanuel Saez, Banks, Wage Stagnation, Paul Krugman, American International Group, Great Depression, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters, By Emily Kaiser) - In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark sin...

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A Pledge to 1% of America

Terrance Heath | Posted 10.08.2010

Read More: Foreclosures, Unemployment Rate, US Poverty, Lobbyists, Economy, Wall Street Reform, Jobs, Bush Tax Cuts, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Trade Deficit, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Foreclosure, Bank Bailout, Republican Party, Poverty Rate, Taxes, Foreclosure Crisis, Income Inequality, Lobbying, Wages, Wage-Stagnation, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Wage Stagnation, China Currency, Manufacturing Jobs, American Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Wall Street, Corporate America, Trade, Pledge to America, Income Disparity, Corporate Greed, Republicans, Politics News

The "Pledge to America" is, in truth, a pledge to continue the same policies that brought us the current economic crisis.

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Lost Decade For American Income

Wall Street Journal | By CONOR DOUGHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Living Standards, Downward Mobility, Lost Decade, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Upward Mobility, Wage Stagnation, Income, Poverty Rate, Business News

The downturn that some have dubbed the "Great Recession" has trimmed the typical household's income significantly, new Census data show, following yea...

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Restoring Pride and Fairness to American Jobs

Joe Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wage Stagnation, Labor Day, Politics News

If retail jobs are going to be a crucial part of America's future, then retail jobs need to be the kind of jobs that support American families and communities.

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'Third World America': 11 Books Predicting The Collapse Of The Middle Class (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Caroline Eisenmann and Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reagonomics, Third World America, Middle Class, Deregulation, Wage Stagnation, Slidepollajax, Arianna Huffington, Middle Class Crisis, Recession, Books News

"Third World America": as Arianna says in her video about the book, it's a tough phrase to swallow when it comes to how we perceive America's powerful...

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