Connecticut in Crisis: How inequality is paralyzing ‘America’s country club’ The state is caught in an economic straitjacket and there’s no easy way out By Jared Bennett July 26, 2018 –Center for Public Integrity Main Street in Bridgeport, the largest city in…
The Agenda to Raise America’s Pay There is now widespread agreement across the political spectrum that wage stagnation is the country’s key economic challenge. Wages for the vast majority of American workers have stagnated or declined since 1979—and wage stagnation’s reach has broadened…
12 charts that show the real problems policies must tackle, not the made-up ones December 21, 2017 EPI.org Inequalities, and the inequities in opportunity that they represent, permeate all areas of American society. The real problems policies must tackle include…
News from EPI: Proposed rule would protect employers who steal workers’ hard-earned tips By Heidi Shierholz • December 2017 Today the Trump administration took their first major step towards allowing employers to legally take tips earned by the workers they employ. The…
Raises: Survey shows 52% of workers didn’t get one in the past year —Paul Davidson, USA TODAY Nov. 15, 2017 — (Photo: Getty Images) More than half of Americans have not gotten a bump in salary over the past 12 months,…
Cutting corporate taxes will not boost American wages EPI Report • By Josh Bivens • October 25, 2017 The Trump administration is marketing its plan to give huge tax cuts to the richest U.S. households with a bold but fanciful claim: that these…
Report: CT’s low-income jobs on the rise —PATRICIA DADDONA— Hartford Business Journal– Connecticut’s share of low-income jobs has ticked up by 1.3 percentage points since 2011, according to a report from New Haven-based Connecticut Voices for Children. According to the…
Concession Fatigue in Connecticut August 29, 2017 / John O’Connor and Louise Williams — Labor Notes For the third time in eight years, public sector workers in Connecticut have voted for concessions, and it is labor’s so-called friends who have hurt…
Group Of Millionaires Pushes For Higher Taxes On The Wealthy As the state faces a budget deficit of $3.5 billion over two years, a group of “upper-income” state residents say they want to be part of the solution to solving…
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart By DAVID LEONHARDTAUG. 7, 2017 — NYT INCOME GROWTH Over previous 34 years But now, the very affluent (the 99.999th percentile) see the largest income growth. Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an…