Oct 9, 2014 ... That's not much, especially when compared with the pre-Great Recession years  of 2006 and 2007, when the average hourly wage often increased by around 4%  year-over-year. (During the high-inflation years of the 1970s and early 1980s,  average wages commonly jumped 8%, 9% or even more ...
Feb 8, 2011 ... Failing to note that while saying that millions of people were thrown out of work  struck us as misleading. So we rated this claim Barely True. • Moore: During the  Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained  frozen." Adjusted for inflation, Non-supervisory production workers ...
Reagan criticized government for taxing productive Americans to pay for every  slice of pie that the government took and then used in ever more inefficient ways.  ... it for less productive purposes, while the government is not adequately  addressing the anxieties many citizens feel during globalization's era of rapid  innovation ...
In such settings this form of social democracy meant unionization and 'wages- productivity' deals linking rising wages with increased worker productivity and  labor peace to generate a social wage for working people and stable profits for  capital. This Fordist economic structure, welded onto a New Deal-era political  order, ...
Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism refers primarily to the 20th-century resurgence of  19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism. :7 Such  ideas include economic liberalization policies such as privatization, austerity,  deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to  increase ...
During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."