income inequality – Page 2

As AFL-CIO convention opens, Trumka emphasizes need to battle income inequality

October 22, 2017 By John Wojcik

Income inequality and the wage gap are more than simply unfair, according to AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.

The corporate choice—create real value or grand fortunes

June 22, 2017 By Sam Pizzigati

If downsizings and mergers don’t do the trick, CEOs can always just slash worker pensions and/or cut budgets for R&D and put the resulting “savings” into dividends and “buybacks,” two slick corporate maneuvers that jack up...

Economist: Guaranteed living-wage jobs best way to address inequality

August 19, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

Noted African-American economics professor Darrick Hamilton is proposing federally-guaranteed jobs, at living wages, for everyone.

Analyst: Adults, not teens, are lopsided majority of minimum wage workers

August 12, 2016 By PAI

Researcher Monica Garcia-Perez presented her findings to an AFL-CIO-co-sponsored conference on race, income and inequality.

The “skills gap” myth: What’s really driving down wages?

December 31, 2015 By Tim Libretti

There is an illusion that American workers' economic woes are attributable to their own lack of appropriate skills rather than to concerted efforts on the part of capital to disempower workers.