Seattle: Highest Minimum Wage, Lowest Unemployment Rate
Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages In Seattle, unemployment has fallen and business has boomed since the city...
U.S. Real Wage Growth: Slowing Down With Age
Surgeons are Red, Psychiatrists are Blue
I found this to be a fascinating dichotomy among medical professionals regarding their political affiliations. It raises as many question...
Why Better Wages Are Tied to Healthcare Costs
Health-Care Costs Ate Your Pay Raises Take-home wages have stagnated for more than 40 years because employers shell out so much more for...
Winner Takes All
From Bloomberg: “The share that the top 1 percent of earners in the U.S. take from total wages has almost doubled since the 1970s, and...
Recovery is (Finally) Driving Median Incomes Higher
During the past two years, we have seen signs that wage pressure is building as the economic recovery grinds on. Enough evidence has now...
Median Incomes Are Finally Improving (Charts)
Some fascinating data out on the long awaited improvement in middle incomes in America. The past year have seen the biggest recent gains...
Can’t Find Qualified Applicants? Raise Your Pay!
Having Trouble Hiring? Try Paying More Job-market data suggests that employer demand may have caught up with labor supply. Bloomberg,...