MEMORANDUM TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, SECRETARY CLINTON AND OTHER 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS SUBJECT: Seize the Future by Linking Wages to Productivity Growth RECOMMENDATION: The Democrats should adopt a new national economic doctrine that American enterprises link wages to...
This article first appeared in The Globalist. A generational effort is required to restore growth in U.S. wages. Despite the sincerity of their sentiments, Democrats will fall flat in efforts to provide a structural solution to wage stagnation in the United States...
This article first appeared on Social Europe. Stagnant wages have robbed the American middle class of opportunity. Since 1979, wages have barely kept up with inflation and for tens of millions of relatively unskilled Americans, earnings have actually declined. This...
This article first appeared here. Weak American investment and weak wages are the consequence of weak corporate governance, with solutions to be found in Australia and northern Europe. Here are the facts: First, real U.S. wages have gone flat since 1980 despite...