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Stagnant wages imperil financial security

Wages have been largely stagnant for 45 years but consumer prices have risen dramatically.

01/11/2014 | Rating NR

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Stagnant wages imperil financial security

Clip: 1/11/2014 | 2m 56s

Wages have been largely stagnant for 45 years but consumer prices have risen dramatically.

Wages in the U.S. have been largely stagnant over the past 45 years, but during the same time span consumer prices have risen dramatically. Hari Sreenivasan discusses this trend and its effect on poverty with Bloomberg BusinessWeek reporter, Roben Farzad.

01/11/2014 | Rating NR

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