On 2013-08-12, at 11:52 AM, c b posted: > http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/40-percent-of-u-s-workers-make-less-than-what-a-full-time-minimum-wage-worker-made-in-1968 > > Are American workers paid enough? That is a topic that is endlessly > debated all across this great land of ours. Unfortunately, what > pretty much everyone can agree on is that American workers are not > making as much as they used to after you account for inflation.
This damning piece was probably also written before the recent revisions to the US national income accounts which show wage and salary earners have been doing even worse than than had been estimated and that corporate profits are even higher as a percentage of GDP. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/business/economy/us-companies-thrive-as-workers-fall-behind.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1&; > And of course probably the most important thing that we could do for > our economy would be to get rid of the Federal Reserve. Right-wing populism is so uneven and confused, isn't it? :) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
