{"id":66539,"date":"2015-04-18T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66539"},"modified":"2015-04-18T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T16:18:26","slug":"wall-street-bonuses-twice-the-income-of-all-minimum-wage-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/04\/18\/wall-street-bonuses-twice-the-income-of-all-minimum-wage-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Bonuses Twice the Income of All Minimum Wage Workers Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1,007,000 Americans working full-time earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. All of that pay, to all of those people, for all of 2014\u00a0adds up to $14 billion dollars. And\u00a0that is less than <em>half<\/em> of what\u00a0employees on Wall Street earned in bonuses alone.<\/p>\n<p>This is your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org\/deep-end-wall-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">image of the week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/4.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-66540\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/4-500x292.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/4-500x292.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/4.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org\/deep-end-wall-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Policy Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,007,000 Americans working full-time earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. All of that pay, to all of those people, for all of 2014\u00a0adds up to $14 billion dollars. And\u00a0that is less than half of what\u00a0employees on Wall Street earned in bonuses alone. This is your image of the week: Source: Institute for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,3920],"class_list":["post-66539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-nation-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66539","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66603,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66539\/revisions\/66603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}