Valerie Wilson at the Economic Policy Institute writes—10 years after the start of the Great Recession, black and Asian households have yet to recover lost income: Today’s Census Bureau report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in 2017 shows that while all race and ethnic groups shared in the growth in median household incomes […]
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Gov't: 201,000 new jobs gained in August. Wages make big increase, but only equal to inflation
According to government surveys, the economy generated 204,000 seasonally adjusted new private-sector jobs in August. Previously reported numbers for June and July were revised downward. The public sector shed 3,000 jobs in August, for an overall net gain of 201,000 jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported Friday that the headline unemployment rate remained unchanged at […]
Open thread for night owls. 'Prison Labor on the Kill Line’
Michelle Chen at The Nation writes—Prison Labor on the ‘Kill Line’: Frank Dwayne Ellington showed up at an Alabama chicken factory last October for his weekend shift, expecting to work off another day of his life sentence. As one of the Alabama inmates selected to work in a prison-labor program known as work-release, Ellington might […]