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The Freefall of 2008 (www.motherjones.com)

The 2008 drop in median household income was the biggest since the Census Bureau started tracking this stuff in 1976.

Tags: economy,wages,poverty

Submitted 6 months ago by blogladder | 0 Comments |

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Labor Day and the low-wage future (therealnews.com) TMC

Pre-crisis forecast from Dept. of Labor shows a US economy structurally inclined toward low wages

Tags: tmc,the real news,economy,labor day,wages,recession,video

Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Working Without Laws (www.thenation.com) TMC

For the past thirty years, the gospel of lean and mean has reordered the world of work, setting off a race to the bottom in which employers circumvent and evade standards that once seemed inviolate.... More

Tags: tmc,the nation,economy,working,employment,workplace laws,wages

Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

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Recovery for who? (therealnews.com) TMC

Worker productivity figures shoot up, with no gains in employment or wages to show for it

Tags: tmc,the real news,economy,recovery,workers,employment,wages,video

Submitted 7 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Who Is At The Table? (commonwealinstitute.org)

The current state of the economy demonstrates how the conservative “you’re on your own” approach has failed us. Our economy is terribly out of balance because the negotiating table has been out... More

Tags: labor,economy,wages,banefits

Submitted 8 months ago by DaveJ | 0 Comments |

US recession fueled by low wages and consumer debt (therealnews.com) TMC

Leo Panitch: Weakening of unions and global pressures on US wages a major factor

Tags: tmc,real news network,recession,wages

Submitted about 1 year ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

IS DETROIT'S PROBLEM WAGES? (www.prospect.org) TMC

David Leonhardt has an excellent column today on the woes of the automakers and the relevance of labor costs, in particular that $73 number you always hear. He even has a graph:

Tags: detroit,problem,wages,tmc,labor costs,auto industry,bailout

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

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