{"id":52949,"date":"2012-12-11T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-12-09T01:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:13:12","slug":"the-distressed-labor-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/12\/11\/the-distressed-labor-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Distressed Labor Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/documents\/publications\/min-wage3-2012-04.pdf\">two charts<\/a>\u00a0taken from a Center for Economic Policy and Research Center study by\u00a0John Schmitt and Janelle Jones\u00a0highlight the distressed nature of the U.S. labor market and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/05\/business\/unionizing-at-the-low-end-of-the-pay-scale.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">need<\/a> for raising the minimum wage and strengthening union organizing.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt and Jones define low wage work as that work paying $10.00 an hour or less in 2011 dollars. \u00a0As the charts show, low wage workers are far more educated and older in 2011 than in 1979.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/?attachment_id=1364\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1364\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1364 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/12\/min-wage3-fig1-2012-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/?attachment_id=1365\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1365 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/files\/2012\/12\/min-wage3-fig2-2012-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Education and experience are not sufficient to ensure a living wage.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, growing numbers of low wage workers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/11\/26\/wal_mart_worker_uprising_protests_held\">Walmart<\/a> and at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/11\/30\/hundreds_of_fast_food_workers_strike#transcript\">chain fast food restaurants<\/a>\u00a0have begun engaging in direct action for higher wages and better working conditions. \u00a0 They deserve our support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Martin Hart-Landsberg is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/college.lclark.edu\/faculty\/members\/martin_hart-landsberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of Economics<\/a>\u00a0and Director of the Political Economy Program\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lclark.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis and Clark College<\/a>. \u00a0You can follow him at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reports from the Economic Front<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following two charts\u00a0taken from a Center for Economic Policy and Research Center study by\u00a0John Schmitt and Janelle Jones\u00a0highlight the distressed nature of the U.S. labor market and the need for raising the minimum wage and strengthening union organizing. &#160; Schmitt and Jones define low wage work as that work paying $10.00 an hour or [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,29,36,34,253,76],"class_list":["post-52949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-education","tag-history","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52956,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52949\/revisions\/52956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}