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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/our-inequality-an-introduction/ by Colin Gordon 20/9/16 The Guardian] | [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/our-inequality-an-introduction/ by Colin Gordon 20/9/16 The Guardian] | ||
The dimensions of that inequality are both familiar and depressing. A smaller share of national income is flowing to wages and earnings, and—more important—inequality within that labor share is widening. As a result, wage growth has flatlined for a generation [click here for interactive graphic]. Middle-income workers make no more now than they did in the late 1970s; those in the lower wage cohort have lost ground over that span. | The dimensions of that inequality are both familiar and depressing. A smaller share of national income is flowing to wages and earnings, and—more important—inequality within that labor share is widening. As a result, wage growth has flatlined for a generation [click here for interactive graphic]. Middle-income workers make no more now than they did in the late 1970s; those in the lower wage cohort have lost ground over that span. | ||
=====Latinos’ Retirement | |||
Insecurity in the | |||
United States===== | |||
[https://unidosus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/latinoretirement_unidosus_nirs_report_112818_lr.pdf by UNIDOS US] | |||
UnidosUS, previously known as NCLR | |||
(National Council of La Raza), is the nation’s | |||
largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy | |||
organization. Through its unique combination | |||
of expert research, advocacy, programs, | |||
and an Affiliate Network of nearly 300 | |||
community-based organizations across the | |||
United States and Puerto Rico, UnidosUS | |||
simultaneously challenges the social, | |||
economic, and political barriers that affect | |||
Latinos at the national and local levels. | |||
