Oct 9, 2014 ... For most U.S. workers, inflation-adjusted wages have been flat or falling for  decades, regardless of whether the economy has been adding or subtracting ...  According to BLS-generated cost indexes for wages/salaries and total benefits,  benefit costs have risen about 60% since 2001 (when the data series ...
Feb 11, 2016 ... "Americans haven't had a raise in 15 years." Many individual American  households have seen their incomes rise since the turn of the century. ... take a  look at the most basic measure of how well Americans more generally are doing  income-wise -- namely, median household income, adjusted for inflation.
Nov 15, 2015 ... Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrongly said that wages “haven't risen  since the turn of the last century.” Real average weekly earnings of rank-and-file  workers rose 7.2 percent since 1999. Sanders repeated his talking point about  billionaires paying “an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck ...
May 26, 2017 ... For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average  wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity  and inflation growth. The rise in the share of employee compensation that takes  the form of health benefits instead of wages is a factor, but doesn't ...
Sep 2, 2015 ... Things have gotten even worse since 2000: net productivity has grown 21.6  percent since then, yet inflation-adjusted compensation for the median worker ... “ People have been told that the economy isn't doing well and therefore that's why  people haven't done well,” Lawrence Mishel, president of EPI and a ...
Wages adjusted for inflation haven’t risen since the turn of the last century.