{"id":155,"date":"2010-10-25T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-10-25T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:48:15","slug":"unsettling-new-wage-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Unsettling (well, maybe scary) new wage data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/tax.com\/taxcom\/taxblog.nsf\/Permalink\/UBEN-8AGMUZ?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on tax.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/tax.com\/taxcom\/taxblog.nsf\/Profiles\/DavidCayJohnston?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">David Cay Johnston<\/a> reports on new wage data released by the Social Security Administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without  earning a single dollar, new data from the Social Security  Administration show. Total wages, median wages, and average wages all  declined, but at the very top, salaries grew more than fivefold&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8230;Since 1980, however, the bottom 90 percent of Americans have seen their  incomes go nowhere, while on the highest steps of the income ladder, the  further up you are, the greater your gains.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Add in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decreased number of jobs, and all these data add up to policies that can be described with one word: failed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Johnston-Wages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-156\" title=\"Johnston Wages\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Johnston-Wages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Johnston-Wages.jpg 523w, http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Johnston-Wages-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another excellent article on tax.com, David Cay Johnston reports on new wage data released by the Social Security Administration. Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without earning a single dollar, new data from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}