Economic Snapshots Switch Display

At the top: Soaring incomes, falling tax rates

April 7, 2010 | By Andrea Orr
Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Counting the jobs lost to China

March 31, 2010 |
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Trade and Globalization

Health insurance for more Americans

March 24, 2010 | By Andrea Orr
Health

American factories operating near record low utilization

March 17, 2010 | By Andrea Orr
Economic Growth | Trade and Globalization

Unemployed wait longer and longer for jobs

March 10, 2010 | By Andrea Orr
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Where has all the income gone? Look up.

March 3, 2010 | By Lawrence Mishel
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty

Leaving in droves

February 24, 2010 | By Heidi Shierholz and Kathryn Anne Edwards
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Economic Growth | Retirement

The Recovery Act worked

February 17, 2010 | By Ross Eisenbrey
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Budget Taxes and Public Investment | Economic Growth

Immigration helps boost relative wages of U.S.-born workers at all levels of education

February 4, 2010 | By Anna Turner
Trade and Globalization | Immigration

Worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? By a long shot.

January 27, 2010 | By Josh Bivens
Economic Growth

The Corrosive Effects of Inequality on Health

January 19, 2010 | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty | Health

Private sources of spending cannot sustain job growth

January 13, 2010 | By Josh Bivens
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Layoffs moderating, but hiring not yet picking up

December 23, 2009 | By Heidi Shierholz
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Economic Growth | Unions and Labor Standards

Many children left behind

December 16, 2009 | By Joydeep Roy
Education | Race and Ethnicity

High unemployment: A fact of life for American Indians

December 9, 2009 | By Algernon Austin
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Economic Growth | Race and Ethnicity

Calling in sick not an option for most low-paid workers

December 2, 2009 | By Andrea Orr
Health

State and local budget shortfalls will cause heavy drag on growth

November 18, 2009 | By Andrew Fieldhouse and Ethan Pollack

Jobs creation effort needs to focus on good jobs

November 10, 2009 | By Algernon Austin
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty

Minorities, less-educated workers see staggering rates of underemployment

November 4, 2009 | By Kathryn Anne Edwards
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Economic Growth | Trade and Globalization | Education | Inequality and Poverty | Race and Ethnicity

Money to spare for health care

October 28, 2009 | By Anna Turner
Health

Highest earners get biggest tax breaks for saving for retirement

October 21, 2009 | By Monique Morrissey
Retirement

Public health insurance offsets large losses in private coverage

October 14, 2009 | By Elise Gould
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty | Health

Most black children grow up in neighborhoods with significant poverty

October 7, 2009 | By Joydeep Roy
Education | Race and Ethnicity

Lost investment during a recession can prolong pain

September 30, 2009 | By Ethan Pollack and John Irons
Economic Growth

Trade agreement favors pharmaceutical companies over sick

September 23, 2009 | By Tony Avirgan
Trade and Globalization

Americans agree on how to fix Social Security

September 16, 2009 | By Ross Eisenbrey
Retirement

Big banks getting bigger

September 9, 2009 | By Nancy Cleeland
Economic Growth

This Labor Day, wage erosion continues to hurt employed workers

September 2, 2009 | By Lawrence Mishel and Anna Turner
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Economic downturn largest contributor to deficit woes

August 25, 2009 | By John Irons
Economic Growth