Tuesday, August 27, 2013

US Economic Policy: Keeping Wages Flat Since 1979 

Pro-worker policies have been under attack for a generation, but the last decade has been simply devastating, says report

- Jon Queally, staff writer 
 
In the United States of America the rich get richer, the poor stay poor, and the middle class—if they're lucky—just stay "flat".

For the last tens years, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, the failure of the economy to provide a living wage to a majority of its workers has created a decade of stagnation.

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