Showing posts with label Labor Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labor Day. Show all posts

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Labor's Fair Share

On Labor Day, What About Labor’s Fair Share?
  • According to the Economic Policy Institute, productivity went up about 25 percent from 2000 to 2012. How much did compensation increase? Only about 7 percent. 
  • From 1979 to 2010 the top 1 percent of households saw their after-tax income grow by about 202 percent.