Recent work on Wages, Incomes and Wealth

• The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage: If we’re going to live in one unified America, we need an economy that works for all Americans

  May 15, 2013 | By David Cooper | Commentary

• Where’s the Change?

  April 11, 2013 | By Jeff Faux | Commentary

• Wages of young college graduates have failed to grow over the last decade

  April 4, 2013 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic snapshot

• Using standard models to benchmark the costs of globalization for American workers without a college degree

  March 22, 2013 | By Josh Bivens | Report

• How Good Jobs Policies Can Reduce the Black-White Wealth Divide

  March 21, 2013 | By Algernon Austin | Commentary

• Even at $10.10, minimum wage would be lower than it could be, given economy’s growth

  March 14, 2013 | By David Cooper | Economic snapshot

• Raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 would give working families, and the overall economy, a much-needed boost

  March 13, 2013 | By David Cooper and Doug Hall | Report

• Testimony in support of HB 1204: “Labor and Employment – Maryland Wage and Hour Law – Payment of Wages”

  February 27, 2013 | By David Cooper | Testimony

• Declining value of the federal minimum wage is a major factor driving inequality

  February 21, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Report

• Statement by EPI President Lawrence Mishel on President Obama’s support for a higher minimum wage

  February 13, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Quick Takes

• Vast majority of wage earners are working harder, and for not much more: Trends in U.S. work hours and wages over 1979–2007

  January 30, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Report

• Earnings of the top 1.0 percent rebound strongly in the recovery

  January 23, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel and Nicholas Finio | Report

• Assessing the job polarization explanation of growing wage inequality

  January 11, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel, John Schmitt, and Heidi Shierholz | Report

• Pulling Apart: A state-by-state analysis of income trends

  November 15, 2012 | By Elizabeth McNichol, Doug Hall, David Cooper, and Vincent Palacios | Report

• The rise of the top 1 percent—not the same everywhere

  October 24, 2012 | By Josh Bivens | Economic snapshot

• The 10-year decline in wages for most college graduates

  October 3, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic snapshot

• The ‘democratization of the stock market’ that never happened

  September 26, 2012 | By Heidi Shierholz | Economic snapshot

• Women much more likely to earn poverty-level wages

  September 19, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic snapshot

• A lost decade of income growth for working-age families

  August 30, 2012 | By Josh Bivens | Economic snapshot

• Unions, inequality, and faltering middle-class wages

  August 29, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Report

• A Massachusetts minimum-wage increase would help working families and generate jobs

  August 21, 2012 | By Mary Gable | Report

• Taxes and executive compensation

  August 14, 2012 | By Steven Balsam | Report

• How raising the federal minimum wage would help working families and give the economy a boost

  August 14, 2012 | By Doug Hall and David Cooper | Report

• Workers 20 years of age and older benefit most from proposed hike to federal minimum wage

  July 25, 2012 | By Doug Hall | Economic snapshot

• Economic research supports raising the minimum wage

  July 13, 2012 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Commentary

• Young families fall even farther behind in saving

  June 20, 2012 | By Monique Morrissey | Economic snapshot

• As unions decline, inequality rises

  June 6, 2012 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Colin Gordon | Economic snapshot

• Who will save the middle class?

  May 30, 2012 | By Jeff Faux | Commentary

• Wages of young college graduates have failed to grow over the last decade

  May 16, 2012 | By Heidi Shierholz, Natalie Sabadish, and Hilary Wething | Economic snapshot

• CEO pay 231 times greater than the average worker

  May 3, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic snapshot

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