Downturn In Real Wages

by Lisa Wade, Feb 26, 2008, at 07:11 pm

This graph, from yesterday’s New York Times, shows a decrease in real wages in the past year in the face of 4% inflation.

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Tags: class, economics, economics: Great Recession, history

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