Latest Income Numbers in Historical Perspective
Colin Gordon of the Iowa Policy Project has taken recently-released 2012 figures on the incomes of the top 1%...
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Secretary for the Selective Use of Statistics
On September 6, Pennsylvania Labor & Industry Secretary Julia K. Hearthway chided the Patriot-News — and, indirectly, the Keystone...
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Just How Much Will a Fast Food Wage Increase Cost?
In The State of Working Pennsylvania 2013, we said that substantially raising the wages of fast food workers —...
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With Unemployment High, Pennsylvania’s Economy Has Been Creating Lots of Bad Jobs
In this year’s State of Working Pennsylvania, our annual evaluation of the health of the economy from the perspective...
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The State of Working PA This Labor Day
Coming on the heels of a day when thousands of fast food workers in 50 U.S. cities walked off...
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‘This Is What the Middle Class Looks Like’ … Fast Food One-day Strikes and the Next Upsurge in Unionism
“This is what democracy looks like.” Even though this chant originated with the Seattle protests against the World Trade...
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Pennsylvania, Land of Opportunity
We’re not always the “good news bears,” but today we’re thrilled to give greater visibility to a landmark new...
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Toshi Seeger and Respect for the Working Man and Woman
Toshi Seeger’s obituary last week in The New York Times brought a smile to my face. Toshi provided her...
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Connecting the Dots Between Unemployment and Wage Growth
Colin Gordon of the Iowa Policy Project (and the Tell Tale Chart) has a new graphic illustrating the connection...
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Can Businesses Make More Money by Paying their Workers More?
We spend a lot of time around here worrying about rising profits and stagnant wages, but that doesn’t mean...
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Strengthening the Middle Class
On Thursday, Derek Thompson, an associate editor at the Atlantic, wrote a guest post at Ezra Klein’s blog discussing...
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