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source Between 2000 and 2011, the wages of young college graduates in the United States dropped 5.4 percent. That decline stands in sharp contrast to the period from 1995 to 2000, when their wages rose 19.1 percent.
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Chart of the day
Posted: 4 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: chart, corporations, inequality, profits, United States
source Yes, that’s right: CEO pay is not 209 percent of but 209 times the average worker’s pay.
source And, perhaps not surprisingly, Apple is one of the worst offenders, even when it conducts “all of its business with the highest of ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting rules.”
The official unemployment rate in Spain climbed to 24.4 percent in the first quarter of 2012. It is the highest rate since 2001 (for the new series) and since 1994 (for different series). More importantly, what it means is that 5,639,500 people—including almost one million young workers (between the ages of 16 and 24)—are currently [...]
Julio Boltvnik, writing for the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, finds that more that the vast majority of Mexicans—90 million people or 82.8 percent of the population—are poor. His method adds to the 20 million or so Mexicans who are abjectly (and officially) poor, 30 million who are more moderately poor and nearly 40 million who [...]
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source That’s one way of looking at the severity of unemployment in the Second Great Depression. Here are two others:
source Taxes are low because those who can pay—large corporations and wealthy individuals—don’t, and those who can’t pay—because they’re incomes have declined and they’re already paying a whole host of federal, state, and local taxes—well, they can’t pay more. And because taxes are low, budget deficits have grown and the kinds of government programs one [...]
