- The State of American Wages 2017: Wages have finally recovered from the blow of the Great Recession but are still growing too slowly and unequally | Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/publication/the-state-of-american-wages-2017-wages-have-finally-recovered-from-the-blow-of-the-great-recession-but-are-still-growing-too-slowly-and-unequally/ 4 comments politics