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25 Feb

Wal-Mart’s Plan to Boost Pay, State by State

by Barry Ritholtz
Regarding yesterday’s discussion on Wal-Mart’s pay raise, check out this informative map from the WSJ:     Source: WSJ

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23 Feb

The Changing Nature of Middle-Class Jobs

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: NY Times

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23 Feb

Wal-Mart’s Crash Course in Labor Economics

by Barry Ritholtz
Wal-Mart’s Minimum Wage Breakdown Wal-Mart plans to raise the wages of hourly workers because it didn’t have much choice as...

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27 Jan

The Shrinking American Middle Class

by Barry Ritholtz
click for interactive infographic Source: The Upshot

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22 Jan

Higher Education, Wages, and Polarization

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Higher Education, Wages, and Polarization Rob Valletta FRBSF, January 12, 2015     The earnings gap between people with a...

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16 Jan

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be Rich . . .

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: MoJo

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14 Jan

NFIB points to upward pressure on wages

by Barry Ritholtz
From Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank: The next ECI will be released on Jan 30 and the NFIB data that just came out points to more upward...

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9 Jan

Why Is Wage Growth So Slow?

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Why Is Wage Growth So Slow? Mary C. Daly and Bart Hobijn FRBSF, January 5, 2015     Despite considerable improvement in the...

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8 Jan

Revisiting Plutonomics

by Barry Ritholtz
“The Plutonomy is here, is going to get stronger, its membership swelling. Toys for the wealthy have pricing power, and staying...

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18 Dec

Always Low Wages? Wal-Mart’s Other Choices

by Barry Ritholtz
Always Low Wages? Wal-Mart’s Other Choices Wal-Mart’s holiday public-relations headache began when a Canton, Ohio, store...

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