Wage Slaves: How Americans are Paid Less than Ever
There is a hidden cost to the everyday goods Americans purchase and consume. That hidden cost is paid in taxes that fund anti-poverty programs such as Welfare and Medicaid which are used by companies to subsidize their payrolls.
It’s no wonder today’s generation is having such a difficult time affording basic necessities such as housing and food when wages are almost a third less than a generation ago. Click here to read more.
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Trumka: Obama Showed He Hears People Not Heard by 1%
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight made clear that he hears the people who aren’t being heard by the 1 percent, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Obama’s speech showed he “listened to the single mom working two jobs to get by, to the out-of-work construction worker, to the retired factory worker, to the student serving coffee to help pay for college.”
By laying out a vision of an America that can create jobs and prosperity for all instead of wealth for the few, Trumka said the president “voiced the aspirations and concerns of those who are too often ignored.” Click here to read more from the AFL-CIO blog.
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Reuters: The retail price of America’s income inequality
Retail is considered one of the bright spots in the American economy, one of only six job categories projected to grow nationally through 2018. But a survey released this week makes clear that many of these are jobs in name only, offering poverty-level wages, highly restricted access to benefits, part-time work when full-time is desired, and a workforce so cowed that it routinely accepts working conditions that make work-life balance, or the chance to upgrade skills and move into better-paid work elsewhere, all but impossible. Read more from Caitlin Kelly in Friday’s Reuters blog.
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