CHARTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
13 Charts From 2019 That Will Blow Your Mind Economic Policy Institute See All the charts here
Tag: Pay gap
Raise the Pay for our Most Important Workers!
Let’s pay preschool educators a worthy wage ..AFT Follow May 1 · By Tammy Duckworth I know firsthand the difference a teacher can make in a student’s life. When I was a child, my dad lost his job — and all too quickly,…
More Jobs! Higher Wages! Real Facts!
NY Fed: Minimum wage hikes didn’t kill jobs Study found that higher pay boosted job numbers for low income workers –Crain’s NY Business: GREG DAVID — Columnist — September 25, 2019 11:25 AM Bloomberg HIGHLIGHTS • Study zeroed in on NY border • Wages increased…
WOW! 1/2 $$$ Trillion Less Pay For Women
Women lose $513 billion a year in wages due to gender pay gap and math is worse for some —Charisse Jones, –USA TODAY– Oct. 23, 2018 | (Photo: Getty Images) Women experience $513 billion in lost wages a year because of the…
Sickening Inequality — CT 3rd Most Unequal State!
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…
Top 10 Ways to Raise American’s PAY
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…
Shocker! Where’s Our Raise You Promised?
The tax cuts were supposed to help workers. Unions say they’re not. By Danielle Paquette April 5 — Washington Post — Labor groups want to see more of the tax-cut windfall. (Dennis Skley/Flickr) Unions that represent about 6 million workers in the United…
No Raise for you! Over Half Didn’t Get One Last Year.
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,…
Fair? You Decide! The Wealthy See Greatest Income Growth — Everyone Else Not So Much
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…
ACA REPEAL THREATENS LIVELIHOOD OF HOME CARE WORKERS
Home care workers have our lives in their hands. They’re paid only $10 an hour by Sarah Jaffe, The Guardian, Jul 14 2017 Read the article — here’s a summary: Although home care workers have begun to…