The Middle-Class Squeeze: A Picture of Stagnant Incomes, Rising Costs, and...
Source: Jennifer Erickson, Center for American Progress, September 24, 2014 From the summary: This report provides a snapshot of the American middle class and those struggling to become a part of it....
View ArticleEconomic Insecurity, Rising Inequality, and Doubts about the Future: Findings...
Source: Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), September 23, 2014 From the press release: Despite the overall improvement in the U.S. economy, a...
View ArticleNew Census Data Once Again Illustrate Importance of Unions to the Middle Class
Source: Keith Miller and David Madland, Center for American Progress, September 18, 2014 According to data released this week by the Census Bureau, America’s middle class continued to struggle to...
View ArticleUnions Are Among the Very Few Interest Groups that Represent the Middle Class
Source: David Madland and Danielle Corley, Center for American Progress, November 14, 2014 Buried deep inside Princeton University political scientist Martin Gilens’ research highlighting the excessive...
View ArticleMiddle Skills to the Middle Class
Source: Jennifer Ginn, Council of State Governments, Capitol Ideas, November/December 2014 In the middle part of the 20th century, so-called “middle jobs” helped many people move into the middle class....
View ArticleInfuriating Facts About Our Disappearing Middle-Class Wealth
Source: Paul Buchheit for Buzzflash at Truthout, November 3, 2014 A recent posting detailed how upper middle class Americans are rapidly losing ground to the one-percenters who averaged $5 million in...
View ArticleManufacturing Low Pay: Declining Wages in the Jobs That Built America’s...
Source: Catherine Ruckelshaus & Sarah Leberstein, National Employment Law Project (NELP), November 2014 Key findings: • Americans perceive manufacturing jobs as “good jobs.” • Manufacturing wages...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation and Income...
Source: David Hemous, Morten Olsen, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10244, November 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: We construct an endogenous...
View ArticleUnited Way ALICE – United Way’s Study of Financial Hardship
Source: United Way and Rutgers University, 2014 From the Rutgers summary: In a collaborative effort, United Ways in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, and New Jersey will release...
View ArticleRacial Inequality Trends and the Intergenerational Persistence of Income and...
Source: Deirdre Bloome, American Sociological Review, Vol. 79 no. 6, December 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: Racial disparity in family incomes remained remarkably stable over the past...
View ArticleOne Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security...
Source: Rebecca Vallas and Sharon Dietrich, Center for American Progress, December 2014 From the summary: …Today, a criminal record serves as both a direct cause and consequence of poverty. It is a...
View ArticleThe Case for Reforming Federal Overtime Rules: Stories from America’s Middle...
Source: Judy Conti, National Employment Law Project (NELP), Policy Brief, December 2014 America’s middle-class workers are spending more hours at work than ever before, and yet are still falling...
View ArticleAs Income Inequality Rises, America’s Middle Class Shrinks
Source: Keith Miller and David Madland, Center for American Progress, December 18, 2014 America’s middle class is struggling. As recent economic data show, middle-class household incomes remain...
View ArticleThe Upwardly Mobile Barista
Source: Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic, Vol. 315 no. 4, May 2015 Starbucks and Arizona State University are collaborating to help cafe workers get college degrees. Is this a model for helping more...
View ArticleReport on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2014
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 2015 from the press release: The Federal Reserve Board’s latest survey of the financial and economic conditions of American households...
View ArticleOut of Reach 2015: Low Wage & High Rents Lock Renters Out
Source: Megan Bolton, Elina Bravve, Emily Miller, Sheila Crowley, Ellen Errico, National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2015 From the summary: In order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment in the...
View ArticleExplaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline,...
Source: Eric D. Gould, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10649, June 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: This paper investigates whether the increasing...
View ArticleDoes ‘birth lottery’ trump the American Dream?
Source: Clifton B. Parker, Futurity, July 29, 2015 When a child wins the “birth lottery” by being born into a higher-income family, the economic payoff is very large, say researchers. “This result is...
View ArticleGood Jobs Are Back: College Graduates Are First in Line
Source: Anthony P. Carnevale, Tamara Jayasundera, Artem Gulish, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2015 From the summary: The growth of U.S. jobs and wages during the recovery...
View ArticleThe Future of Work and Workers
Source: Pacific Standard, 2015 A special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in...
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