Economic Snapshots Switch Display

Minimum wage workers: better educated, worse compensated

July 22, 2009 | By Heidi Shierholz and Andrew Green
Wages Incomes and Wealth

The Federal Reserve’s exploding balance sheet

July 15, 2009 | By Nancy Cleeland and Lucas Puente
Budget Taxes and Public Investment | Economic Growth

African Americans see weekly wage decline

July 8, 2009 | By Algernon Austin
Race and Ethnicity

Mass layoffs at highest level since at least 1995

July 1, 2009 | By John Irons and Anna Turner
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Health

Germany protects jobs

June 24, 2009 | By Tony Avirgan and Anna Turner
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Trade and Globalization

Honor thy father

June 17, 2009 | By Christian Dorsey
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Commencing unemployment

June 10, 2009 | By Kathryn Anne Edwards
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Community banks: Small enough to fail

June 3, 2009 | By Nancy Cleeland
Economic Growth

Increases in minimum wage boost consumer spending

May 27, 2009 | By Kai Filion
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Economic Growth

Employers can stall first union contract for years

May 20, 2009 | By Ross Eisenbrey
Unions and Labor Standards

The myth of private-sector performance pay

May 13, 2009 | By Joydeep Roy
Education

No paid leave for new moms

May 6, 2009 | By Elise Gould
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Unions and Labor Standards

Unusually bad and getting worse

April 29, 2009 | By Josh Bivens
Economic Growth

Among college-educated, African Americans hardest hit by unemployment

April 22, 2009 | By Algernon Austin
Education | Race and Ethnicity

It’s not academic: Why charter schools close

April 15, 2009 | By Joydeep Roy
Education

Housing collapse drives up consumer bankruptcies

April 8, 2009 |
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Transportation investments reduce income inequality

April 2, 2009 | By Ethan Pollack
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Inequality and Poverty

While economy burns, Europe fiddles

March 25, 2009 | By Tony Avirgan
Economic Growth | Trade and Globalization

Growing share of Big-Three vehicles assembled in Mexico

March 17, 2009 | By Robert E. Scott
Trade and Globalization

Caution: When Used as Directed, 401(k)s are Hazardous to Your Financial Health

March 9, 2009 | By Monique Morrissey
Education | Retirement

Recovery package eases but does not eliminate job woes

March 4, 2009 | By Kai Filion
Wages Incomes and Wealth

Unions do not undermine international competitiveness

February 25, 2009 | By Josh Bivens
Trade and Globalization | Unions and Labor Standards

Economies of major developed countries will shrink in 2009

February 18, 2009 | By Tony Avirgan
Economic Growth | Trade and Globalization

Outsourced federal jobs more likely to be low-wage

February 11, 2009 | By Kathryn Anne Edwards
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Budget Taxes and Public Investment

Recovery package falls short of infrastructure needs

February 4, 2009 | By Ethan Pollack
Economic Growth

COBRA expansion won’t benefit most low-income workers

January 28, 2009 | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Health

Federal grants key to recovery for states in recession

January 21, 2009 | By Kathryn Anne Edwards

Downtime: Workers forced to settle for fewer hours

January 14, 2009 | By Ross Eisenbrey
Wages Incomes and Wealth

How long would a job-market recovery take?

January 7, 2009 | By John Irons
Wages Incomes and Wealth | Economic Growth