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When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated.
Amazon's $15 per hour wage for 250,000 workers in 2018
10/03/2018
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Amazon to Raise Its Minimum U.S. Wage to $15 an Hour
WSJ 10/02/2018
When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated.
New York Times 10/23/2018
Ikea's plan to increase the minimum wage to $10.76 an hour for the U.S. in 2014
06/26/2014
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Ikea to Increase Minimum Hourly Pay
New York Times 06/26/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage
New York Times 04/22/2015
IKEA to Ratchet Up Its Hourly Pay in U.S.
Wall Street Journal 06/25/2015
The New York Times 09/16/2016
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades
Washington Post 12/09/2016
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.
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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
Amazon and U.S. wages
10/23/2018
Grouped Articles
When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated.
New York Times 10/23/2018
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.
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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
Focus on wages, income disparities, rising inequality, and a shrinking middle class in the first Democratic debate, for the U.S. 2016 presidential election
10/14/2015
O'Malley, Sanders and Clinton emphasize this issue in the debate.
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The CNN Democratic debate transcript, annotated - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/14/2015
Democrats Say the Economy Stinks
Wall Street Journal 10/15/2015
Clinton, judged winner of debate, holds big national lead over Sanders - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/20/2015
Not There Yet on Equal Opportunity
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2015
Washington Post 10/23/2015
Paris massacre could alter the 2016 presidential race in this country - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/15/2015
U.S. income and poverty in 2014
09/17/2015
The median income in the U.S. was 6.5% below the level in 2007, according to the Census Bureau. It declined in 2011 and 2012 and was stagnant in 2014. About 14.8% of the population, or 46.7 million people, are below the poverty level. About 34.7% of the people in the U.S. have experienced income levels below the poverty level for 2 months or more between 2009-2012
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Wall Street Journal 09/17/2015
A Better Way to Measure Poverty
Wall Street Journal 10/19/2015
The fatal trend among white working class Americans - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/12/2015
The I-Word Our Debates Are Missing
Wall Street Journal 12/10/2015
A Republican Cure for Liberal Failures on Poverty
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2016
Apple should repay Ireland 13bn euros, European Commission rules - BBC News
BBC News 08/30/2016
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