Economic Snapshots Switch Display

A long-overdue increase in the minimum wage is needed to restore lost ground

April 27, 2004 | By Jeff Chapman
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Unemployment among women not significantly different than for men

April 21, 2004 | By Yulia Fungard
Wages Incomes and Wealth

On balance, Japan’s so-called ‘lost decade’ not so bad

April 19, 2004 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Lopsided trends in profits and wages threaten to topple growth

April 12, 2004 | By Lee Price
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Insourced investments lead to imbalanced trade

April 7, 2004 | By Adam S. Hersh
Trade and Globalization

‘Insourcing’ myths: Jobs and insourcing

April 6, 2004 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Congressional budget resolution takes the deficit from bad to worse

April 5, 2004 | By Max B. Sawicky
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Soaring increase in high-tech exports from China erodes U.S. employment – EPI Snapshots

March 29, 2004 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Foreign government intervention keeps the value of the dollar artificially high

March 24, 2004 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

High-paying software jobs being moved abroad

March 22, 2004 | By Lee Price
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Jobs fall behind growth in working-age population

March 17, 2004 | By Lee Price
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Lack of domestic demand is not the cause of manufacturing’s woes

March 15, 2004 | By Josh Bivens
Trade and Globalization

Increase in hi-tech investment obscures weakness in overall manufacturing

March 10, 2004 | By Josh Bivens
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Different sets of employment numbers tell the same story: Slow job growth

March 3, 2004 | By Elise Gould
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Bush budget clearly tailored for election year

February 25, 2004 | By Max B. Sawicky
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

The highly educated are the latest victims of the weak recovery

February 18, 2004 | By Sylvia A. Allegretto
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Wage and salary income yet to share in growth

February 11, 2004 | By Josh Bivens
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Economic growth not reaching middle- and lower wage earners

February 4, 2004 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Jobs shift from higher-paying to lower-paying industries

January 28, 2004 | By Jeff Chapman
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Economic evidence supports the need for Congress to resume TEUC

January 20, 2004 | By Sylvia A. Allegretto
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty

Soaring trade deficit threatens to destabilize U.S. financial markets

January 14, 2004 | By Robert E. Scott
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Growing economy, stagnant wages

January 7, 2004 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Job growth up, job quality down

December 24, 2003 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

NAFTA-related job losses have piled up since 1993

December 16, 2003 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Fast growth for profits, slow growth for wages and benefits

December 10, 2003 | By Josh Bivens
Wages Incomes and Wealth

New plan fails half of elderly in 2006

December 3, 2003 | By Elise Gould
Health

Unemployment level of college grads surpasses that of high-school dropouts

November 26, 2003 | By Jared Bernstein
Wages Incomes and Wealth

U.S. economy still showing signs of slack

November 19, 2003 | By Josh Bivens
Wages Incomes and Wealth

U.S. NAFTA trade deficit surging again

November 13, 2003 | By Robert E. Scott
Wages Incomes and Wealth