44% of Fully Employed Americans earning $18,000 or less

[Oville]

Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less

Crazy stat. This is coming from the Brookings Institute by the way which is generally considered a conservative think tank. Peep the video interview with Richard Wolff too. Really goes into depth about why the unemployment numbers look the way they do.

 

[OfTheCross]

Brookings isn't considered conservative. But yeah, the median individual income in the US is $31K.

So I'm not surprised.

 

[88m3]

I clear more than that a month due to certs




Anyways last I knew household income only around 50k and that's probably heavily skewed and in wealthier states



We need nationalized health care, labor reform, and higher wages. It's time to stand up to state governments, congress, and corporations.

 

[88m3]

Brookings isn't considered conservative. But yeah, the median individual income in the US is $31K.

So I'm not surprised.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I really don't understand that

 

[Ahadi]

Sheesh

 

[OfTheCross]

Low-wage work is more pervasive than you think, and there aren’t enough “good jobs” to go around

That’s one of the main takeaways from our new analysis, in which we found that 53 million Americans between the ages of 18 to 64—accounting for 44% of all workers—qualify as “low-wage.” Their median hourly wages are $10.22, and median annual earnings are about $18,000. (See the methods section of our paper to learn about how we identify low-wage workers.)

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Reading SQPR...United States sounding like Rome

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Depressing

 

[DonKnock]

Did y'all really think progressives in congress were doing the fight for 15 to help high school kids like Rethugs tried to lead y'all to believe?

 

[DEAD7]

 

[OfTheCross]

We broke out here

 

[afterlife2009]

Horrible. Bernie is the first viable chance in generations who's gonna throw sand into the engine of our bloodless capitalist machine.

 

[Geek Nasty]

This is the end of this country, people are too gullible, too easy to distract, and too apathetic when they do care. You got 1/3 of the country slavishly following a fascist wanna be dictator like he's the 2nd coming of Jesus and another 1/3 more worried about dudes in dresses getting teh right to be called "Margaret" at the office.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Earned income is slightly misleading but thats still way too high