Sep 19 Column: Why 5.2 percent income growth still leaves us in the doldrums By John Komlos Why does it feels like incomes are stagnating even as the Census Bureau documents income growth of 5.2 percent?… Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 3:12 The U.S. just got a big pay raise. Why don’t we feel it? By PBS News Hour It’s a major issue on the campaign trail: American angst about jobs and wages. New census data from last year shows that for the first time in almost a decade, household incomes in the U.S. have gone up and the… Continue watching
Sep 13 Income is up, poverty is down, but neither are back at pre-recession levels By Kristen Doerer With improving incomes, 3.5 million people climbed out of poverty in 2015, pushing down the official poverty rate to 13.5 percent. Continue reading
Dec 07 New study ranks the colleges that produce the highest paid graduates By Vic Pasquantonio A new study released Tuesday by Georgetown University ranks 1,400 four-year colleges and universities on how much money students earn ten years after starting classes. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 8:47 How does the fight for $15 affect the labor market? By PBS News Hour Three years since a small group of fast-food workers began protesting in demand of higher pay and better conditions, a minimum wage of $15 an hour is becoming a reality for many across the country. Jeffrey Brown gets two perspectives… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 8:53 ‘Managers used to be middle-class jobs’: Labor Secretary Perez on expanding overtime pay By PBS News Hour President Obama is calling for a substantial expansion of who’s eligible to earn overtime pay. His proposal would the lift the salary cap to $50,000 for all workers, even managers and executives. But many businesses have said the president’s idea… Continue watching
Dec 31 How can selling your home raise your Medicare premiums? By Philip Moeller Even a one-time boost in income, from the sale of a home, for example, will raise your Medicare Part B and D premiums, explains Making Sen$e Medicare Maven Phil Moeller. You probably won't see that increase, though, for two years… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch Why the typical worker is struggling to share U.S. prosperity By PBS News Hour The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a pattern of uneven progress. While the poverty and unemployment rates have fallen, prosperity is no longer widely shared as the economy grows. Sheldon Danziger of the Russell Sage Foundation talks… Continue watching
Apr 23 New York Times study: most Americans’ incomes have stagnated By Anya van Wagtendonk Economic growth in the U.S. is as strong as or stronger than in many other countries –- but that growth benefits only a small percentage of American households. That’s the conclusion of a New York Times analysis, based upon… Continue reading
Feb 06 Watch Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet By PBS News Hour Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of this growing employment trend at colleges and universities. Continue watching