Sep 12, 2017 ... The last time Congress passed comprehensive tax reform, in 1986, it eliminated  the gap between workers' and investors' taxes. Their ... Americans in the top 1  percent, and especially the top 0.1 percent, have seen their wealth and income  multiply in recent decades as the rest of the country's share of the ...
Feb 3, 2014 ... The five-year farm bill passed in late January 2014 by the House—with Senate  approval expected—contains a 1 percent cut to the food stamp program ($8  billion over 10 years), through tighter restrictions on heating assistance. The  number of Social Security Disability Insurance recipients has surged by ...
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 ...  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.
Jun 21, 2015 ... CEO compensation in 2013 (the latest year for data on top wage earners) was  5.84 times greater than wages of the top 0.1 percent of wage earners, a ratio ...  The options-realized measure reflects what CEOs report as their Form W-2  wages for tax reporting purposes and is what they actually earned in a ...
In the past 20 years, the US economy has grown nearly 60 percent. ... But it's also  the result of Americans working harder—often without a big boost to their bottom  lines. ... The wage freeze. Increase in real value of the minimum wage since 1990 : 21%. Increase in cost of living since 1990: 67%. One year's earnings at the ...
Over the last 10 years, incomes for the top 1 percent "have grown." Meanwhile, the bottom half of the country, "they've seen their wages stagnate."