Average Wage-Earners Fall Behind
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The new economic era will require that millions of people earning around the national average, $17 an hour, shoulder more responsibility and risk on the way to financial security, economists say.
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While the income of the bottom 60 percent of Americans has barely budged since 1979, the income of the top dogs has risen by more than a factor of three.
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Weekly wages for rank-and-file workers fell because companies reduced the average length of the workweek.
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Americans are falling further behind on consumer loans, with late payments rising to the highest level since the nation's last recession in 2001, data released Thursday show.
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Borrowers fell behind in their payments on a higher percentage of consumer loans in the first three months of the year, pinched by slowing job and wage growth and climbing gasoline prices, new figures showed yesterday.
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The gap between rich and poor in Britain is the widest for 40 years, with a growing number of people living below the poverty line, a report said Tuesday.
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Annual growth in workers&#39; pay slowed unexpectedly in the three months to September to its lowest this year, official data has shown, providing more
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By some measures, fewer people are managing to stay in the middle class.
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A minimum-wage paycheck falls well short of what many Tri-State residents need to cover rent, according to a study released Monday by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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Colorado isn&#39;t doing enough to boost its low-income working families, according to a study to be released today. That is especially troubling, say those who are involved in
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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The latest batch of disappointing U.S. employment data highlights a gap between Wall Street's economic forecasts and the tough labor market facing nearly eight million unemployed Americans.
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Worker productivity, the key factor in rising living standards, slowed sharply in the final three months of the year while wage pressures increased.
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Many working families still feel no benefit from the US economic recovery, the Economic Policy Institute says. While business is improving, average wages have fallen, job satisfaction has declined and the
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One out of every four working American families earns wages so low they struggle to survive financially, according to a report due out today.
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A gauge of US manufacturing fell this month to the lowest in more than a year, incomes lagged spending in September and home construction declined in the final economic reports before tomorrow&#39;s presidential election.
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The new economic era will require that millions of people earning around the national average, $17 an hour, shoulder more responsibility and risk on the way to financial security, economists say. -The Washington Post