Re: Request for help...

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 4:19 PM 8/4/95, kevin john geiger wrote:


>        I have been engaged with another person on a local newsgroup
>about the wages earned by US workers in the last 20-30 years.  I made a
>statement which I thought would not be flamed, "That working wages in the
>US have been falling the last 20-30 years."  This "gentleman" challenged
>me and I have done some research on this.  I recall about 3 months ago
>several articles describing this trend but have had a hard time finding
>them now.  I have found some good info on the widening gap of income
>inequality.  Does anyone have a good source of info that supports my
>statement that working wages in the US have been declining the last 20-30
>years?

I haven't updated this figure in a few months, but as of earlier this year,
the average real hourly wage for nonsupervisory workers (about 70-80% of
the labor force) is about 16% off its 1973 peak. This comes from an
unimpeachable official source - the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Doug

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