World News Insights
1-3 Minute Gist
Search, personalize, or simply browse. Follow the world around you from gist and context to insights.
Who we are | Our Credo | Ways of using Lyrarc | FAQ | Send Feedback | First Letter From the Editor
Sign up. It's free and easy to use
Create an account
to personalize your feed of articles and topics.
All Topics Article
America’s Inequality Problem: Real Income Gains Are Brief and Hard to Find
The problem of declining wages and rising inflation in the U.S. - 2011-2012
01/01/2010
Grouped Articles
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
New York Times 04/27/2014
Job Growth Fails to Help Paychecks of Workers
New York Times 01/09/2015
Hiring Booms, but Soft Wages Linger
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2015
Sluggish Productivity Hampers Wage Gains
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2015
U.A.W. Contract With Fiat Chrysler Would Give 2nd-Tier Workers Big Raise
New York Times 09/18/2015
Efforts to reverse the decline in wages for factory workers in the U.S.- the automobile industry in 2015
09/18/2015
Grouped Articles
U.A.W. Contract With Fiat Chrysler Would Give 2nd-Tier Workers Big Raise
New York Times 09/18/2015
A stunning stat about pay seems impossible but actually is true - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/22/2015
The CNN Democratic debate transcript, annotated - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/14/2015
Washington Post 10/23/2015
America’s Inequality Problem: Real Income Gains Are Brief and Hard to Find
The New York Times 09/13/2016
The New York Times 09/16/2016
College and University Food Bank Alliance and increasing reliance of low income household students on food pantries
04/08/2015
The College and University Food Bank Alliance has 183 members. With increases in tution of about 25% at U.S. universities and colleges since 2007, more students from low income households are having to reduce meals or use a food bank. About 40% of students in the UC system are from households with incomes less than $50,000 in 2015. Wage stagnation in the U.S. as food costs increase is also leading to more students having full tution aid depending on supplemental ways of meeting food costs. This is affecting the ability of students to study leading the UC system head, Janet Napolitano, to get a a study on food hunger.
Grouped Articles
Colleges Launch Food Pantries to Help Low-Income Students
Wall Street Journal 04/08/2015
College Majors Figure Big in Earnings
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2015
What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts
New York Times 10/16/2015
A Better Way to Measure Poverty
Wall Street Journal 10/19/2015
Washington Post 10/23/2015
U.S. Household Incomes Surged 5.2% in 2015, First Gain Since 2007
WSJ 09/13/2016
The higher minimum wage set in Michigan in 2014- $9.25 by 2018
05/29/2014
Grouped Articles
Michigan Becomes Seventh State This Year to Raise Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
Andrew M. Cuomo: Fast-Food Workers Deserve a Raise
New York Times 05/06/2015
America’s Inequality Problem: Real Income Gains Are Brief and Hard to Find
The New York Times 09/13/2016
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades
Washington Post 12/09/2016
Amazon to Raise Its Minimum U.S. Wage to $15 an Hour
WSJ 10/02/2018
Tackling middle class poverty in the U.S.- causes and strategies
03/11/2009
Shrinking incomes, low job growth, growth in temporary jobs, offshoring of jobs, are part of a trend since 1989. This is compounded by acceleration of developments during the last decade of low savings and paltry return on savings, effects on net worth of the financial crisis of 2008 through job losses, lost income, foreclosures, high cost of health care and college tution for children. The combination is creating a new kind of middle class poverty in the U.S. The Obama administration has pushed for college education even as it is becoming less affordable and neglected jobs training. The push to raise the minimum wage helps the poor but does not do as much for the middle class.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
8 States to Raise Minimum Wage
New York Times 12/23/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
New York Times 02/10/2010
Poverty among white Americans in 2010-2015
03/11/2009
A previous generation could count on good jobs in manufacturing with only a high school education. The last two decades of globalization have hit manufacturing jobs and wages in the U.S. hard and the impact is greatest on people without a college education. Other problems aggravating income and causing poverty is the increase of dropout rates from the labor force of young white American men, the effects of drug use and the lack of stable marraiges. This creates an underclass of whites in America, similiar to the underclass among minorities.
Grouped Articles
Racial Wealth Gap Widened During Recession
New York Times 04/28/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
New York Times 06/22/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
New York Times 02/10/2010
Wages, benefits and productivity in U.S. manufacturing 2005-2015
01/01/2010
Grouped Articles
Does America Need Manufacturing?
New York Times 08/24/2011
Whirlpool Shifts Some Production to U.S. From Mexico
Wall Street Journal 12/20/2013
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Wall Street Journal 01/06/2012
U.S. Productivity Growth Has Taken a Dive
Wall Street Journal 02/04/2014
Falling Wages at Factories Squeeze the Middle Class
New York Times 11/20/2014
The impact of declining factory wages on the U.S. middle class 2004-2014
11/20/2014
Grouped Articles
Falling Wages at Factories Squeeze the Middle Class
New York Times 11/20/2014
Hiring Booms, but Soft Wages Linger
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2015
Sluggish Productivity Hampers Wage Gains
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2015
Wall Street Journal 09/17/2015
U.A.W. Contract With Fiat Chrysler Would Give 2nd-Tier Workers Big Raise
New York Times 09/18/2015
A stunning stat about pay seems impossible but actually is true - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/22/2015
The National Employment Law Project study of the U.S. recovery and jobs created, showing more low paying jobs created replacing better paying ones
04/27/2014
The study shows high wage industries such as accounting and legal work lost 3.6 million jobs in the recession and added 2.6 million in the last four years. In low wage indusries such as fast food and retail 2.0 million jobs were lost in the recession and 3.8 million jobs were created. Overall better paying jobs were replaced by poorer paying jobs in a weak U.S. recovery.
Grouped Articles
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
New York Times 04/27/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
Sluggish Productivity Hampers Wage Gains
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2015
A stunning stat about pay seems impossible but actually is true - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/22/2015
America’s Inequality Problem: Real Income Gains Are Brief and Hard to Find
The New York Times 09/13/2016
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
The New York Times 02/28/2018
Faces of men who are unemployed or in part time work in the U.S. as one sixth of men 25-54 lack jobs in 2014
02/07/2012
The sharp decline in inflation adjusted wages for less skilled workers since 2000 and lack of decent paying jobs has led to many men too discouraged to look for work, and dependent on a spouse's income or government benefits. This is unlike any other post 1950's economic recovery in the U.S.
Grouped Articles
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects
Wall Street Journal 02/07/2012
New York Times 02/08/2012
Hiring Rises, but Number of Jobless Stays High
New York Times 04/04/2014
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
New York Times 04/27/2014
A part-timer boom, or blip? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/16/2014
Binding minimum wage referendum's in U.S. states Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, in Nov.2014, with large popular support
11/03/2014
Initiatives in U.S. states for the minimum wage in 2014 elections. Initiatives are a way around the deadlock in Congress on the issue.
Grouped Articles
Little Opposition Seen in Some Votes to Raise State Minimum Wages
New York Times 11/03/2014
Minimum-Wage Boosts, Pot Legalization Advance in State Ballot Measures
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2014
Election pay day: Five states adopt higher minimum-wage laws
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
Hiring Booms, but Soft Wages Linger
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2015
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Wal-Mart, Target stores, TJX in 2015- efforts to raise the U.S. minimum wage, and competition for lower wage workers
05/16/2014
Wal-Mart, Target stores, and TJX raise the wages to over $9 per hour in 2015.
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart Says It Won't Oppose Increase in Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
Wal-Mart Raising Wages as Market Gets Tighter
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Wal-Mart’s Raises Reflect Tighter Jobs Market
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Target to Increase Wages to At Least $9/Hour for All Workers in April
Wall Street Journal 03/19/2015
Tax Policy Center research that shows $157 billion generated from increasing taxes on the over 1 million income earners in the top 1% in the U.S.
10/16/2015
The top 1% earn about $2.1 million on average and are considered to be the largest beneficiaries of tax and economic policy of recent decades, just as global competition severely hurt wages of factory workers. A Tax Policy Center (Brookings Institution and Urban Institute backed) study shows that increasing taxes on the 1.13 million households in the top 1% from a federal rate of 33.4% currently to 40% would generate $157 billion, enough to provide for tution free educaton in colleges and universities in the U.S., finance spending on infrastructure, and provide assistance to the middle class for high health premiums. Public opinion in the U.S. favors higher taxes for the top 1% to pay for programs that increase opportunity for the middle class and workers with low incomes. Education is a great leveler of income disparities over time, one of the reasons the U.S. offered tution free education to returning veterans after World War II. Incomes for people in this income group of the top 1% would still be about $1 million a year after the tax increase, according to the Tax Policy Center.
Grouped Articles
What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts
New York Times 10/16/2015
Not There Yet on Equal Opportunity
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2015
Washington Post 10/23/2015
The New York Times 08/12/2016
Mark Sanford: I Support You, Donald Trump. Now Release Your Tax Returns.
The New York Times 08/15/2016
U.S. Household Incomes Surged 5.2% in 2015, First Gain Since 2007
WSJ 09/13/2016
California's minimum wage increase to $10 an hour
04/15/2013
Grouped Articles
California Set to Raise State Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
In Washington State, Home of Highest Minimum Wage, a City Aims Higher
New York Times 10/13/2013
Patchwork of Local Wage Laws Fuels Debate Over Raising Federal Minimum
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
Germany's Social Democrats Agree to Coalition Talks With Merkel
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2013
New York Times 12/01/2013
Dwindling Tools to Raise Wages
New York Times 12/10/2013
The changing demographics of minimum wage workers in the U.S. in 2014-2015
06/09/2014
Not just young people take minimum wage jobs as more people can only get part time low paying jobs following the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 06/09/2014
A part-timer boom, or blip? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/16/2014
A Growing Economic Recovery Bypasses Low-Wage Workers and Their Tables
New York Times 12/14/2014
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
After a Bounce, Wage Growth Slumps to 0.1%
New York Times 03/06/2015
Increase in the minimum wage in Los Angeles in May 2015 to $15 over 5 years
05/19/2015
By some estimates over 50% of the workforce in Los Angeles makes less than $15 an hour.
Grouped Articles
Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour
New York Times 05/19/2015
America’s Inequality Problem: Real Income Gains Are Brief and Hard to Find
The New York Times 09/13/2016
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades
Washington Post 12/09/2016
Amazon to Raise Its Minimum U.S. Wage to $15 an Hour
WSJ 10/02/2018
A debate on upward economic mobility after wage stagnation under Republican and Democratic presidents 2002-2015
08/01/2015
Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and Rick Perry present different proposals to address the lack of upward mobility in the U.S. since 2002, under Republican and Democratic administrations. This could be the reason for the popularity of fringe candidates in both parties Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, with increasing public discontent with mainstream politicians.
Grouped Articles
The Opportunity Debate Heats Up
Wall Street Journal 08/01/2015
Washington Post 08/09/2015
Similarities Aside, Bernie Sanders Isn’t Rerunning Howard Dean’s 2004 Race
New York Times 08/09/2015
The Democrats’ Socialist Surge
Wall Street Journal 08/12/2015
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2015
Jeb Bush Tax Plan Makes Forays Into Populism
New York Times 09/09/2015
Governor Cuomo's $15 minimum wage for state employees in New York
03/31/2016
Grouped Articles
New York Budget Deal With Higher Minimum Wage Is Reached
New York Times 03/31/2016
New York’s Path to $15 Minimum Wage: Uneven, and Bumpy
New York Times 04/01/2016
America’s Inequality Problem: Real Income Gains Are Brief and Hard to Find
The New York Times 09/13/2016
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades
Washington Post 12/09/2016
Amazon to Raise Its Minimum U.S. Wage to $15 an Hour
WSJ 10/02/2018
The minimum wage in the U.S. 2010-2015
11/29/2011
Grouped Articles
8 States to Raise Minimum Wage
New York Times 12/23/2011
California Set to Raise State Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
In Washington State, Home of Highest Minimum Wage, a City Aims Higher
New York Times 10/13/2013
Patchwork of Local Wage Laws Fuels Debate Over Raising Federal Minimum
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
New York Times 12/01/2013
$15 Wage in Fast Food Stirs Debate on Effects
New York Times 12/04/2013
Wal-Mart and raising the basic wage to $9 per hour in April 2015, $10 per hour in 2016
02/20/2015
A tightening labor market is behind the Wal-Mart decision to raise the wages per hour for 2015 and 2016.
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart Raising Wages as Market Gets Tighter
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Wal-Mart’s Raises Reflect Tighter Jobs Market
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Walmart Emerges as Unlikely Social Force
New York Times 04/01/2015
Walmart Adjusts the Thermostat to Warm Worker Relations
New York Times 06/03/2015
Walmart Cuts Outlook, Citing Rising Wages and Online Investment
New York Times 08/18/2015
2016 U.S. presidential election- matching programs and slogans for improving the life of the middle and working class
08/04/2016
Ultimately politicians have to deliver and you need well planned programs, specifics for action, to build infrastructure, to create jobs, and to increase wages and incomes for people working in the service economy and in manufacturing industries- how this happens as anger is being vented through slogans and the wall itself becomes a metaphor for those left out in the last 2 decades of tech based prosperity, is itself a question in the 2016 U.S. presidential elction.
Grouped Articles
Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
The New York Times 08/03/2016
Robust Jobs Report Spurs Fed Watch
WSJ 08/05/2016
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Spar Over Economic Proposals
WSJ 08/09/2016
The New York Times 08/12/2016
Trump a Working-Class Hero? A Blue-Collar Town Debates His Credentials
The New York Times 08/26/2016
Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros, European Commission rules - BBC News
BBC News 08/30/2016
The right level for the minimum wage in the U.S.- $10, $12 or $15?
04/15/2013
Grouped Articles
Dwindling Tools to Raise Wages
New York Times 12/10/2013
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2014
America's Miserly Minimum Wage Needs an Upgrade
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2013
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
New York Times 04/27/2014
Swiss to Vote on $25-an-Hour Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2014
Michigan Becomes Seventh State This Year to Raise Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Increase in the minimum wage in 29 U.S. states by Jan. 2015 bringing more food, bus fare to millions of Americans
12/31/2014
Grouped Articles
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
Andrew M. Cuomo: Fast-Food Workers Deserve a Raise
New York Times 05/06/2015
Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage
New York Times 04/22/2015
Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour
New York Times 05/19/2015
A stunning stat about pay seems impossible but actually is true - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/22/2015
The puzzle of continuing U.S. job gains in 2014-2015 with tepid wage growth, low productivity, and low economic growth
03/06/2015
Weak business investment, low productivity, slack in the labor market, and more low paying jobs are some of the reasons explaining the puzzle of job gains in 2014-2015 with small wage gains.
Grouped Articles
Sluggish Productivity Hampers Wage Gains
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2015
After a Bounce, Wage Growth Slumps to 0.1%
New York Times 03/06/2015
The New Jobs Report Shows Janet Yellen’s Quandary in a Nutshell
New York Times 03/06/2015
Slowing Job Growth Tests Economy
Wall Street Journal 04/04/2015
U.S. Economic Growth Nearly Stalls Out
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2015
The Mystery of Declining Productivity Growth
Wall Street Journal 05/15/2015
Lower unemployment in the U.S. in 2015 with weak wage gains, low productivity growth and low GDP growth
03/06/2015
Productivity growth in the U.S. since 2009 is about 1.3% according to the Labor Department, with slack in the labor market not reflected in the 5.5% unemployment rate in Feb. 2015, resulting in tepid wage gains. GDP growth for the same period is an average of about 2% with businesses not increasing capital spending as they did in previous expansions.
Grouped Articles
Sluggish Productivity Hampers Wage Gains
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2015
After a Bounce, Wage Growth Slumps to 0.1%
New York Times 03/06/2015
The New Jobs Report Shows Janet Yellen’s Quandary in a Nutshell
New York Times 03/06/2015
Slowing Job Growth Tests Economy
Wall Street Journal 04/04/2015
Oil Layoffs Hit 100,000 and Counting
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2015
U.S. Economic Growth Nearly Stalls Out
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2015
We took a different way to help millions around the world build educated informed mindsets that affects and shapes their lives. For a future that is open, global and digital, with everyone having access to high quality information. We believe in the renewal of America, renewal of Europe, the renewal of India, the rest of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The renewal of our supply chains, health, education, infrastructure, as we rebuild our countries after the pandemic. Literacy and knowledge we believe cannot thrive and grow in a world of web bots, web crawlers, or AI. This requires human curiosity, human learning, and human imagination. We take as inspiration the saying- “One has to be free, and as broad as sky. One has to have a mind that is crystal clear, only then can truth shine in it.” Every contribution whether big or small is precious- in this crisis and ahead.
Support Lyrarc from as small as $1
Terms and Conditions | Copyright Policy | Privacy Policy | Contact Us