Economic Snapshots Switch Display

Social Security provides the majority of income for three-fifths of Americans age 65+

July 20, 2011 | By Kathryn Anne Edwards and Arin Karimian
Retirement

Proposed NSD spending levels dangerously low

July 13, 2011 | By Ethan Pollack and Arin Karimian
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Employment during the economic recovery

July 6, 2011 | By Arin Karimian
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Budget Taxes and Public Investment | Economic Growth

Work and leave policies

June 22, 2011 | By Arin Karimian
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Lack of jobs, not lack of skills, explains underemployment rate

June 15, 2011 | By Josh Bivens and Andrew Green
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Wage growth slows to a crawl

June 8, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz
Wages Incomes and Wealth

The Bush Tax Cuts Disproportionately Benefitted the Wealthy

June 4, 2011 | By Andrew Fieldhouse
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Government regulations save lives on the job

May 31, 2011 | By Ross Eisenbrey
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Regulation

We Aren’t Going Broke

May 25, 2011 | By Lawrence Mishel
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Budget Taxes and Public Investment | Economic Growth

What goes into a budget deficit?

May 18, 2011 | By Rebecca Thiess
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Poorest teens have hardest time finding summer jobs

May 11, 2011 | By Algernon Austin
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Mexico trade deficit costs jobs in every state

May 3, 2011 |
Trade and Globalization

The People’s Budget: A Responsible Budget Plan

April 28, 2011 | By Rebecca Thiess
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Are more young people “sheltering in school” now than before?

April 20, 2011 | By Heidi Shierholz
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Education

Taxes on the wealthy have gone down dramatically

April 14, 2011 | By Ethan Pollack and Rebecca Thiess
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Access to sick days is vastly unequal

April 11, 2011 | By Elise Gould
Health

Money well spent

April 7, 2011 | By Josh Bivens
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Giving to the rich and taking from the poor

March 29, 2011 | By Andrew Fieldhouse
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Top 5% holds more than half of the country’s wealth

March 24, 2011 | By Andrea Orr
Wages Incomes and Wealth

What workers gave, and what they got

March 17, 2011 | By Lawrence Mishel
Trade and Globalization

Public and private sector compensation both stagnate as productivity rises

March 9, 2011 | By Lawrence Mishel
Unions and Labor Standards

Right-to-work law did not help Oklahoma’s labor market

March 3, 2011 |
Unions and Labor Standards

Public investments near 60-year low

February 23, 2011 | By Ethan Pollack

Wisconsin public servants already face a compensation penalty

February 18, 2011 | By Ethan Pollack
Unions and Labor Standards

Income inequality: It wasn’t always this way

February 9, 2011 | By Andrea Orr
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Interactive map: Unemployment then and now

February 3, 2011 | By Andrea Orr
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Social Security replacing smaller portions of workers’ income

January 20, 2011 |
Retirement

For public-sector workers, a wage penalty

January 6, 2011 |
Trade and Globalization

State of Working America preview: The rich get richer

December 22, 2010 |
Wages Incomes and Wealth