Declining Wages

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American Workers: More Productive, for Less Wages

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
August 28, 2008

The gap between what workers produce and what they take home has reached an all-time high. Since 2000, American workers’ productivity has grown by 19 percent, but median family income has actually fallen since 2000.

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Economic Policy Institute
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Pew Research Center, "Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life." April 9, 2008