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Do
You Get a Fair Pay? Check your salary What
are you worth?
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
Real
Earnings in April 2013, BLS May 16, 2013 Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.5 percent from March to April, seasonally
adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
This result stems from an increase of 0.2 percent in average hourly earnings combined with a decrease of 0.4 percent in the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
Real average weekly earnings was unchanged over the month due to the increase in real average
hourly earnings being offset by a 0.6 percent decrease in the average workweek
Real average hourly earnings rose 0.8
per cent, seasonally adjusted, from April 2012 to April 2013. The increase in real average hourly earnings, combined
with a 0.3 percent decrease in the average workweek, resulted in a
0.5 percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this
period. [emphasis added-jz]
Median
income for full-time male workers in 2010: $47,715
Median income for full-time male workers in 1973: $49,065 [2010
dollars] Pro Publica, 9/11
Have
Earnings Actually Declined?, Greenstone & Looney,
Brookings, Hamilton Project, 3/11
Source: Greenstone & Looney
Basic
family budget calculator, EPI
Change in real compensation by different income levels
8/9/07
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Living-Wage
Politics--states are raising minimum wage
"In the past three years...shop-happy consumers,
cheerfully determined to live beyond their means, leaned a lot
more heavily on borrowings ($675 billion of non-mortgage debt)
than paychecks ($530 billion) to cover the $1.3 trillion increase
in their spending." .Source for charts: Stephanie Pomboy,
MacroMavens, via Alan Abelson, Barron's, April 25, 2005;
Abelson quoted in http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/
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