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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?…

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Sep 13

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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…

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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.

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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.

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Sep 07

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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…

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Jun 30

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‘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…

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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…

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Sep 18

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Why the typical worker is struggling to share U.S. prosperity

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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…

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Apr 23

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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…

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Feb 06

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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.

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