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June 10, 2013 | CAP’s rethinking of the grand bargain path is good. Now CAP should rethink their role in putting us on that path.
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April 2, 2013 | Why the 400,000 new ‘low-skilled’ work visas business wants is a ridiculously high number
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April 2, 2013 | Why the W-Visa agreement should be welcomed
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March 28, 2013 | Working as designed: high profits and stagnant wages
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March 21, 2013 | David Brooks is wrong on the CPC’s Back to Work budget
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March 20, 2013 | To chain or not to chain
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Jan. 15, 2013 | Occupation employment trends and wage inequality: What the long view tells us
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Jan. 14, 2013 | Missing in action: Growth and shared prosperity
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Jan. 14, 2013 | Timing matters: Can job polarization explain wage trends?
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Jan. 2, 2013 | Let’s be straight on ‘investing in our middle class’
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Dec. 18, 2012 | The unkindest cut
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Oct. 10, 2012 | Real hourly wage growth: The last generation
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Oct. 10, 2012 | Digging deeper into the BLS data: It was the ‘job creators’ and those in ‘real America’ that led to the job growth
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Oct. 5, 2012 | The outrageous attack on BLS
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Sept. 14, 2012 | Items I wish the education pundits would read
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Sept. 13, 2012 | Lessons for Chicago: It takes a cake, and the truly disadvantaged need extra frosting
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Aug. 22, 2012 | What does health care have to do with the wage slowdown? Not much
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Aug. 17, 2012 | In what way is a college degree valuable in a recession?
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Aug. 6, 2012 | Investment, employment trends belie claims that regulation and ‘too much government’ impede recovery
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July 20, 2012 | Confirming the further redistribution of wealth upward
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June 25, 2012 | Apple’s shine is fading
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June 5, 2012 | Adding to Joe Nocera’s piece: A revival of the labor movement is necessary to preserve our democracy
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May 29, 2012 | Conservatives say CEO compensation levels are fine now that it takes 10 hours to earn a typical worker’s annual compensation
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May 2, 2012 | It’s executives and the finance sector causing surging 1% income growth!
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April 26, 2012 | Understanding the wedge between productivity and median compensation growth
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April 11, 2012 | Robert Lawrence misleads the New York Times on manufacturing
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March 29, 2012 | Harkin bill would revive the American Dream
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March 28, 2012 | Congressional Progressive Caucus’ Budget for All addresses our national priorities
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March 9, 2012 | Are Liberal Arts majors dragging college grads down?
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March 6, 2012 | The top 1% recoups lost ground
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Feb. 17, 2012 | Unemployment of 8.3% is unacceptably high, no matter when and for whom
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Feb. 14, 2012 | Working spouses cause inequality? Can this emerging zombie lie be killed?
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Feb. 14, 2012 | David Brooks’ bad example
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Feb. 13, 2012 | No, NYT, there’s been no expansion of government benefits, no ‘entitlement society’
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Feb. 9, 2012 | Myths of structural unemployment: The construction dimension
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Feb. 8, 2012 | ‘Nonsense fact’ about union workers used in Super Bowl ad
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Feb. 3, 2012 | On Brooks’ muddled defense of the top 1%
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Feb. 2, 2012 | On Wilson’s muddled defense of the top 1%
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Jan. 24, 2012 | Obama’s State of the Union speech sends the right signals
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Jan. 12, 2012 | False signals on the need for college graduates
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Dec. 14, 2011 | The financial crisis didn’t, and won’t, fix inequality
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Dec. 13, 2011 | On fairy tales about inequality
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Dec. 8, 2011 | Snapshot: Why the drop in the unemployment rate isn’t what you think
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Dec. 2, 2011 | Why falling unemployment may not be making voters happy
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Dec. 1, 2011 | Stop digging us into an ever deeper hole! Or, how not to argue for the payroll tax holiday
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Nov. 23, 2011 | Garbage in, garbage out at Heritage and AEI?
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Nov. 10, 2011 | Fiscal responsibility demands addressing the economic crisis at hand, not the imaginary one
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Oct. 12, 2011 | Clive, don’t change the subject
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Sept. 30, 2011 | Really, that’s all you got?
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Sept. 27, 2011 | Regulatory uncertainty not to blame for our jobs problem
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Sept. 21, 2011 | Snapshot: Disturbing trends in median wealth of households
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Sept. 19, 2011 | Inequality and income losses in the recession: It’s all about lost work
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Sept. 8, 2011 | How effective is President Obama’s jobs plan?
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Sept. 8, 2011 | How to assess a jobs plan
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Sept. 8, 2011 | Please don’t do it on the employer side of the payroll tax
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Sept. 7, 2011 | Blue Chips falling on my head, ouch!
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Sept. 6, 2011 | Welcome to ‘Working Economics’
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Feb. 21, 2013 | Declining value of the federal minimum wage is a major factor driving inequality
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Jan. 30, 2013 | Vast majority of wage earners are working harder, and for not much more: Trends in U.S. work hours and wages over 1979–2007
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Jan. 23, 2013 | Earnings of the top 1.0 percent rebound strongly in the recovery
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Jan. 11, 2013 | Assessing the job polarization explanation of growing wage inequality
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Nov. 14, 2012 | Labor market will lose 400,000 jobs in 2013 if UI extensions expire
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Sept. 25, 2012 | The decline of collective bargaining and the erosion of middle-class incomes in Michigan
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Aug. 29, 2012 | Unions, inequality, and faltering middle-class wages
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May 2, 2012 | CEO pay and the top 1%: How executive compensation and financial-sector pay have fueled income inequality
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May 2, 2012 | Methodology for measuring CEO compensation and the ratio of CEO-to-worker compensation
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April 26, 2012 | The wedges between productivity and median compensation growth
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March 7, 2012 | Entry-level workers’ wages fell in lost decade
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Nov. 4, 2011 | Labor market will lose over half a million jobs if UI extensions expire in 2012
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Oct. 26, 2011 | Occupy Wall Streeters are right about skewed economic rewards in the United States
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Sept. 27, 2011 | Regulatory uncertainty: A phony explanation for our jobs problem
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Sept. 2, 2011 | Putting America back to work: Policies for job creation and stronger economic growth
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Aug. 31, 2011 | Sustained, high joblessness causes lasting damage to wages, benefits, income, and wealth
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May 19, 2011 | We’re not broke nor will we be
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March 30, 2011 | The Teaching Penalty: An update through 2010
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March 15, 2011 | The sad but true story of wages in America
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Jan. 12, 2011 | Education is Not the Cure for High Unemployment or for Income Inequality
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Nov. 4, 2010 | A Good Deal for All
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Sept. 22, 2010 | Reasons for Skepticism About Structural Unemployment
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Aug. 31, 2010 | Recession hits workers’ paychecks
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Aug. 6, 2010 | Social Security and the Federal Deficit: Not cause and effect
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July 15, 2010 | Two for the Price of One
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Jan. 6, 2010 | Employer Health Costs Do Not Drive Wage Trends
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Oct. 20, 2009 | Generating jobs for a robust recovery
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Sept. 4, 2009 | The recession’s hidden costs: Workers lucky enough to keep their jobs still feel the pain in their paycheck
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July 21, 2009 | The job isn’t done: More jobs and family supports needed
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Jan. 13, 2009 | Without adequate public spending, a catastrophic recession for some
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Sept. 29, 2008 | Bailout plan must help the middle class and grow the economy
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April 3, 2008 | Reading the vital signs in the jobs report
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Jan. 11, 2008 | Strategy for economic rebound: Smart stimulus to counteract the economic slowdown
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Aug. 30, 2007 | Economy’s Gains Fail to Reach Most Workers’ Paychecks
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Feb. 8, 2007 | Education and the inequality debate
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Oct. 23, 2006 | Did international trade lower less-skilled wages during the 1980s? Standard trade theory and evidence
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July 12, 2006 | Supervisor in name only: Union rights of eight million workers at stake in Labor Board ruling
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April 14, 2005 | Advantage None: Re-Examining Hoxby’s Finding of Charter School Benefits
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Oct. 20, 2004 | Less Cash in Their Pockets: Trends in Incomes, Wages, Taxes, and Health Spending of Middle-Income Fa
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July 27, 2004 | Assessing Job Quality: How Factcheck.org got it wrong
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Feb. 5, 2004 | Weak Recovery Claims New Victim: Workers’ Wages
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Aug. 26, 2003 | How unions help all workers
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Aug. 26, 2003 | Labor market left behind
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May 13, 2003 | Jobless recovery catches up with wages, stifles growth
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April 7, 2003 | EPI comparison of the Daschle and Bush economic stimulus plans
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April 7, 2003 | Generating jobs and growth: An economic stimulus plan for 2003
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Jan. 1, 2002 | It ain’t over till it’s really over: Slow growth will lead to rising unemployment in 2002 and high unemployment in 2003
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Aug. 1, 2001 | Right-to-Work Laws and Economic Development in Oklahoma
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May 15, 2001 | Changes in federal aid to state and local governments, as proposed in the Bush administration FY2002 budget
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May 1, 2001 | Changes in Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, as Proposed in the Bush Administration FY2002 Budget
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March 31, 2001 | Tax Cuts and Consequences: Bush Budget Plan Will Require Steep Reductions in Real Spending Over Next Decade
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Sept. 1, 2000 | Any way you cut it: Income inequality on the rise regardless of how it’s measured
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April 1, 2000 | A comparison of the proposed minimum wage and tax bills
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Feb. 1, 1999 | Wages Gain Ground: Workforce Benefits in 1998 From Tighter Labor Markets, Higher Minimum Wage
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Dec. 1, 1998 | Wage Inequality in the 1990s
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July 1, 1998 | Finally, Real Wage Gains: Lower Unemployment, Higher Minimum Wage Spur Recent Wage Growth
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Feb. 1, 1996 | Jump-Starting Wage Growth: The High Value of the Minimum Wage
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Sept. 11, 1995 | Recent Wage Trends
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July 1, 1995 | Cutting Wages by Cutting Welfare
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June 1, 1995 | Who Wins With a Higher Minimum Wage
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April 1, 1995 | Profits up, wages down: Worker losses yield big gains for business
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Nov. 1, 1993 | The Political Arithmetic of the NAFTA Vote
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Oct. 1, 1993 | Good Jobs at Good Wages
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Sept. 1, 1993 | The Joyless Recovery: Deteriorating Wages and Job Quality in the 1990s
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June 1, 1992 | The Myth of the Coming Labor Shortage in Rural Areas
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Jan. 1, 1992 | Declining Wages for High School and College Graduates
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June 1, 1990 | Shortchanging Education
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June 1, 1988 | Advance Notice of Plant Closings: Benefits Outweigh the Costs
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Jan. 1, 1988 | Better Jobs or Working Longer for Less
Economic snapshot
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March 28, 2013 | Economy built for profits not prosperity
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Oct. 3, 2012 | The 10-year decline in wages for most college graduates
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Sept. 19, 2012 | Women much more likely to earn poverty-level wages
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Aug. 15, 2012 | Executive compensation tax deductions cost Treasury $30.4 billion over 2007-10
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Aug. 8, 2012 | Government regulation isn’t impeding the recovery
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May 3, 2012 | CEO pay 231 times greater than the average worker
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Feb. 8, 2012 | What does construction have to do with it?
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Dec. 8, 2011 | Unemployment is down over last two years because the labor force shrank, not because of greater employment
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Oct. 19, 2011 | Data on income gains support 99ers’ gripes
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Sept. 28, 2011 | White-collar unemployment double its pre-recession level for almost 2.5 years
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Sept. 21, 2011 | Trends in median wealth by race
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Sept. 15, 2011 | Huge disparity in share of total wealth gain since 1983
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Sept. 8, 2011 | Share of children with at least one unemployed or underemployed parent
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May 25, 2011 | We Aren’t Going Broke
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March 17, 2011 | What workers gave, and what they got
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March 9, 2011 | Public and private sector compensation both stagnate as productivity rises
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Sept. 27, 2010 | Bill Clinton gets it wrong
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Sept. 15, 2010 | Steep rise in unemployment hurts children too
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Sept. 8, 2010 | Top group takes large slice of income growth
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July 14, 2010 | Corporate profits have recovered, but job market still depressed
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June 24, 2010 | Another day, one less dollar
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March 3, 2010 | Where has all the income gone? Look up.
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Sept. 2, 2009 | This Labor Day, wage erosion continues to hurt employed workers
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June 18, 2008 | Income inequality continues staggering 25-year growth trend
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May 13, 2008 | Inhospitable Job Market to Greet College Graduates
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March 5, 2008 | Teacher pay disadvantage soars
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Dec. 19, 2007 | Future jobs much like current jobs
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Sept. 27, 2007 | When wage rates grow unequally
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July 31, 2007 | Who’s Grabbing All the New Pie?
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March 28, 2007 | Recent income gains went to those with highest income
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Aug. 15, 2006 | Employers shift health insurance costs onto workers
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June 26, 2006 | CEO-Minimum Wage Ratio Soars
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June 21, 2006 | CEO-to-worker pay imbalance grows
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Feb. 21, 2006 | Earnings premium for skilled workers down sharply in recent years
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Aug. 25, 2004 | Teacher pay falls behind that of other workers over last ten years
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July 21, 2004 | Jobs in the future: No boom in the need for college graduates
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June 9, 2004 | Job prospects dim for new high school graduates
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March 7, 2003 | Current job losses worse than in past recessions
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July 31, 2002 | CEOs make in a day what average worker does in a year
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Feb. 20, 2002 | Business sector declines mean longer recession
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Oct. 24, 2001 | Employment trend will go from bad to worse
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Oct. 3, 2001 | Imbalances in income growth
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Sept. 6, 2000 | Not your father’s pension plan
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Sept. 6, 2000 | The truth about taxes
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April 5, 2000 | Growing inequality between middle- and high-wage workers
Economic Indicators
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July 12, 2011 | Job seekers ratio continues 29-month rut
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June 8, 2010 | Unemployed workers outnumbered job openings five-to-one in April
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Feb. 9, 2010 | Number of job seekers per job opening remains high in December
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Sept. 1, 2009 | Long-term unemployment soars
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Aug. 12, 2009 | Nearly six unemployed workers per job but ratio does not worsen
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Aug. 3, 2009 | The steep rise in unemployment continues
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June 16, 2009 | Highest unemployment rate since 1983
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June 3, 2009 | The Wage Implosion
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June 2, 2009 | The worst downturn since the Great Depression
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May 7, 2009 | Seven million jobs needed to return to pre-recession employment levels
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Aug. 31, 2005 | Income Picture: August 31, 2005
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Sept. 30, 1999 | Strong income growth, falling poverty rates in ‘98, yet inequality unchanged
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July 2, 1999 | Jobs Picture, July 2, 1999
Testimony
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July 22, 2010 | Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy
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June 10, 2010 | Policy responses to long-term unemployment
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Feb. 23, 2010 | Mishel testifies before Congress on the jobs crisis
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Oct. 8, 2009 | The safety net and the recession
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Jan. 15, 2008 | Testimony Before the Joint Economic Committee Hearing on ‘What Should the Federal Government Do to Avoid a Recession?’
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March 26, 2007 | The right to organize, freedom, and the middle class squeeze (testimony)
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Feb. 15, 2007 | Testimony before the Labor-HHS Education Subcommittee, Appropriations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
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Jan. 29, 2007 | Globalization that works for working Americans
Book
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Sept. 1, 2008 | The State of Working America 2008/2009
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March 5, 2008 | The Teaching Penalty: Teacher Pay Losing Ground
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Dec. 4, 2006 | Talking Past Each Other: What Everyday Americans Really Think(and Elites Don’t Get)About the Economy
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Aug. 28, 2006 | The State of Working America 2006/2007
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May 16, 2006 | Unions and Economic Competitiveness
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April 19, 2006 | Rethinking high school graduation rates and trends
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April 4, 2005 | The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the evidence on enrollment and achievement
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Sept. 2, 2004 | The State of Working America 2004-05
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Aug. 24, 2004 | How Does Teacher Pay Compare? Methodological Challenges and Answers
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Sept. 2, 2002 | The State of Working America 2002-03
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June 1, 2002 | The Class Size Debate
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Sept. 1, 2000 | The State of Working America 2000-01
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Dec. 31, 1999 | Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends (2000)
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Jan. 1, 1999 | The State of Working America 1998-99
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June 1, 1997 | The Prosperity Gap
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Jan. 1, 1997 | The State of Working America 1996-97
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Jan. 1, 1995 | Beware the U.S. Model: Jobs and Wages in a Deregulated Economy
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Sept. 1, 1994 | The State of Working America 1994-95
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Sept. 1, 1992 | The State of Working America 1992-93
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June 1, 1991 | The Myth of the Coming Labor Shortage
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Sept. 1, 1990 | The State of Working America 1990-91
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Sept. 5, 1988 | The State of Working America 1988-89
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May 31, 1988 | Manufacturing Numbers: How Inaccurate Statistics Conceal U.S. Industrial Decline
Commentary
Sept. 25, 2012 | The compensation question: Are public school teachers underpaid?
July 13, 2012 | Generate jobs now
March 5, 2012 | College is not always the answer
Aug. 12, 2011 | America, you are being told to tough it out
March 1, 2011 | Letter: Cutting investments from the federal budget will undermine the strength of America’s economy
Feb. 16, 2011 | Death of the Celtic Tiger: A Cautionary Irish Tale
Feb. 8, 2011 | The Overselling of Education
Dec. 6, 2010 | The Deal: Republicans Got to Comfort the Rich, Obama Got to Help the Rest and Create Jobs
Oct. 12, 2010 | Obama inherited a burning apartment building: Mishel on the stimulus debate
Sept. 22, 2010 | Debunking the claim of structural unemployment
Aug. 13, 2010 | Washington Post gets it wrong on Social Security
July 23, 2010 | Filling a “huge jobs hole”
July 9, 2010 | Mishel debates value of unemployment insurance
April 28, 2010 | Perspective on the budget deficit
April 26, 2010 | Mishel weighs in on fiscal responsibility and priorities
Feb. 25, 2010 | Address jobs now, deficits later
Feb. 23, 2010 | Mishel testifies before Congress on the jobs crisis
Feb. 17, 2010 | The Recovery Act one year later
Feb. 12, 2010 | Senate bill no match for scale of jobs crisis
Jan. 27, 2010 | Spending freeze could spell disaster
Nov. 12, 2009 | EPI applauds White House summit on jobs
Nov. 6, 2009 | Mishel on double-digit unemployment
Nov. 5, 2009 | Mishel weighs in on White House Middle Class Task Force
Oct. 26, 2009 | In praise of reining in runaway pay
Sept. 1, 2009 | Why the public option should not be negotiable in health care reform
July 10, 2009 | Tax cuts won’t create jobs
Feb. 28, 2009 | Corporate group tries, fails to discredit economic argument
Feb. 12, 2009 | EPI statement on economic recovery package
Jan. 29, 2009 | Time to rescind wasteful business tax cuts from stimulus
Jan. 28, 2009 | Union membership grows despite difficult economy
Jan. 10, 2009 | Tax cut approach has already been tried and failed as stimulus
Jan. 8, 2009 | Call for urgent action is justified by economic trends
Nov. 5, 2008 | New Day for U.S. Economic Policy
June 4, 2008 | Education Week’s graduation rate estimates are ‘‘exceedingly inaccurate,’’ experts say
April 30, 2008 | The teaching penalty—We can’t recruit and retain excellent educators on the cheap
April 18, 2008 | Report distorted the debate
March 11, 2008 | Escape from Recession: What you should know about the economic stimulus package
Jan. 24, 2008 | Statement by EPI President Lawrence Mishel on stimulus deal reached by White House and Congress
Jan. 15, 2008 | Testimony Before the Joint Economic Committee Hearing on ‘What Should the Federal Government Do to Avoid a Recession?’
Nov. 14, 2007 | The Characteristics of Offshorable Jobs
Oct. 1, 2007 | Schools as Scapegoats
June 25, 2007 | Americans’ Ambivalence about the Economy: Beyond Rose’s Rosy Scenario
May 31, 2007 | Response to Marc Tucker
March 26, 2007 | The right to organize, freedom, and the middle class squeeze (testimony)
Feb. 15, 2007 | Testimony before the Labor-HHS Education Subcommittee, Appropriations Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
Feb. 5, 2007 | Jay Greene’s persistent misuse of data for teacher pay comparisons
Jan. 29, 2007 | Globalization that works for working Americans
Jan. 3, 2007 | Keep it Clean: There’s no good reason to lard the coming minimum wage bill with extraneous new tax cuts.
March 8, 2006 | The exaggerated dropout crisis
Dec. 12, 2005 | Union declines hurt all workers
Oct. 4, 2005 | Alternative is no solution—On average, charter students don’t do better than public counterparts
May 15, 2005 | Lifting cap on Social Security taxes would rescue retirement program
Jan. 16, 2005 | Do charter schools cut it? No
May 19, 2004 | Unfettered Markets, Income Inequality and Religious Values
Jan. 16, 2004 | A tale of two economies
May 4, 2003 | Reducing taxes will cost jobs and bloat deficit—Democratic short-term stimulus package would work
April 27, 2003 | The Economy, the War and Choosing Our Future
March 4, 2002 | New Paradigm or Old Fashion?
Sept. 11, 1995 | Trends in the Low-Wage Labor Market and Welfare Reform: The Constraints on Making Work Pay