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Federal Reserve Chair Calls Income Inequality the Biggest Challenge in Next 10 Years
“We want prosperity to be widely shared,” Powell said Wednesday evening. “We need policies to make that happen.”
The Shrinking Middle Class: By the Numbers
The American middle-class ideal was forged in the decades after World War II, when economic growth and wage increases climbed in lockstep for nearly 30 years. That pairing dissolved abruptly in the 1970s. Between 1973 and 2017, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the productivity of the economy grew 77%—but average compensation rose only 12.4%, adjusted for inflation.
Report: Most Working American’s Not Saving for Retirement
Less than four months ago, a research report released by the Washington, D.C.-based National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS), using an analysis of U.S. Census data, found that even with the nation’s economic recovery, savings levels of working age Americans are inadequate for America’s retirees to rely on.
Why We Need a 21st Century New Deal for the Middle Class
In the 1930s, concentrations of wealth and a diminishing middle class exacerbated the cruel impact of the Great Depression.
What’s Happened to the Big Wage Increases Promised by Republicans?
The recent announcement by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, that his company would give substantial raises to its lowest-paid employees should not blind us to the fact that most American workers are not receiving big wage increases.
What is the Working Class
Forty, fifty or even sixty years ago, mention the phrase “working class” and most folks understood that to mean “blue collar” laborers such as a machinist, waitress, plumber, cop, production line worker, or housekeeper.
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Congressional Actions
This interactive timeline includes all actions taken by the 116th Congress on Social Security, Medicare, ACA, and Medicaid.
A Message From Our President
The Fight to Save Retirement Security for the Working Class
The movement in Washington to gut our most crucial social insurance programs – not only Social Security and Medicare, but Medicaid, too – amounts to nothing less than a war on the working class: people at all levels of income and employment who are counting on retirement income and health security.
GOP Targeting Earned Benefits
GOP talks of of targeting our earned benefits and health care in 2019.
Tracking Trump and His Administration
From the pages of his own book to the public statements made by President Trump and members of his campaign or administration, theirs is ample evidence that this administration poses a great threat to the future of the earned benefits and other tax payer funded programs that keep workers, seniors, the disabled and their families financially stable.
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