How We Can Kick-Start the Economy, Save Lives, Give Working People a Raise and Turn a Deficit into a Surplus

[dreamdancer 0]

another round of healthcare...

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Over the past 30 years, economic growth hasn't made its way into most working people's paychecks. But -- and this is key -- the amount businesses have to pay for an hour of work has steadily increased. As the Washington Post's Ezra Klein put it, “Most workers think stagnant wages mean their employer is paying them less. They don't know that the main reason for stagnant wages is that their wage increases are going to pay for their health insurance premiums."

Looking just at the George W. Bush years -- before the recession gained steam -- economists Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein found that while average weekly wages for (nonsupervisory) workers increased by a paltry 1.7 percent annually, average compensation -- including health care and other benefits -- increased by 5.1 percent per year.

A picture can be worth 1,000 words, and this graph, based on projections by the Council of Economic Advisers, shows that Americans' incomes will remain flat long into the future if rising health costs aren't better controlled.

http://www.alternet.org/news/150943/how_we_can_kick-start_the_economy%2C_save_lives%2C_give_working_people_a_raise_and_turn_a_deficit_into_a_surplus/?page=entire

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[airdvr 210]

Incomes are flat because of oil prices...

Incomes are flat because we outsourced our manufacturing

Incomes are flat becasue we allowed Wall Street to reem our asses over the last 20 years

Incomes are flat because the government invents new, costly regulations every day

The list goes on and on.

Please don't dent the planet.

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[loumeinhart 0]

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Incomes are flat because of oil prices...

Remember RedHead at the bottom of the viaduct? I bet they would still have cheap gas