Hacker News
- Policy-driven inequality blocks growth for low- and middle-income Americans https://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/key-findings/ 2 comments economy
- "The typical American family has added hundreds of extra hours of work...and earned better education credentials, yet is still struggling to keep up…. Wealth for the typical American family would be $62,000 higher if the growth wasn’t overwhelmingly claimed by families at the very top." http://stateofworkingamerica.org/ 4 comments politics
- Interactive chart summarizing the sentiment behind the OWS movement http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/pages/interactive#/?start=1984&end=2008 8 comments politics
- In the 60s and 70s people worked 43-44 weeks a year. That's 8-9 weeks off a year. http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/tabfig/2008/03/swa08_chapter3_wages_r2_table-3.2.jpg 261 comments business
- In 1965 in the U.S., CEOs made 24 times the average worker's salary. Now CEOs make 275 times what the average worker makes. http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/tabfig/2008/03/swa08_chapter3_wages_r2_fig-3ae.jpg 14 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- Many American Workers Are Underemployed and Underpaid - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/us/many-american-workers-are-underemployed-and-underpaid.html?_r=1&%3Bpagewanted=all 7 comments
- Trump and the Pain of Blue-Collar Whites https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/16/trump-and-the-pain-of-blue-collar-whites/ 3 comments
- The Real Problem With Helicopter Parents: There Aren't Enough of Them - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/the-real-problem-with-helicopter-parents-there-arent-enough-of-them/263410/ 0 comments