A shocking new number from the Economic Policy Institute helps explain the stifling income inequality in the United States.  Between 1978 and 2014, inflation-adjusted CEO pay has risen from $1.5 million to $16.3 million, an unfathomable of 997 percent.  Over that same time period, the average private-sector production and non-supervisory…

  Just in case you need a reminder of how lopsided the economy has become, a new paper from economists at the London School of Economics and the University of California at Berkeley shows the bottom ninety percent of American families are no wealthier than they were in 1986.  While the top 10 percent and, [&hellip…;

  The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) recently released shocking numbers which show over one-fourth of men between the ages of 25-34 earned poverty level wages in 2013.  The same numbers have dropped for women in recent decades, while they more than doubled for men since 1979.  The graph above, created by EPI, shows the share [&hellip…;

  An excellent op-ed from Jim Stanford, economist with Canada’s largest public sector union Unifor, highlights the importance of unions to the middle class.   Arguing that the creation of the middle class was largely a result of higher wages resulting from unionization, Stanford speaks about organized labor’s role in combatting wage…

  A new map provided by the San Francisco Department of Public Health shows how many minimum wage jobs it would take to rent a two-bedroom apartment in each of the city’s neighborhoods.  The results are not shocking but remain quite disturbing and act as yet another morsel of evidence that the minimum wage should [&hellip…;

In an interesting and well-crafted op-ed for The Huffington Post, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) International President Edwin Hill asks all workers in America to stand with low-wage workers in the fast food and retail industries to demand an end to exploitative pay practices.   Hill notes the similarities between the…