- Why American might be stuck with more unhappy part-timers
The story of structural shifts in the U.S. labor market that have economists now fearing a near-permanently elevated level of part-time workers who cannot, and likely will not, find full-time employment.
- Most Americans pessimistic about chances at staying middle class.
A massive 79% of us thinks it’s more likely for Americans to fall into a lower economic class from middle class than it is for a person in the lower class to rise up into the middle class.
- California senate approves another minimum wage hike.
California lawmakers have legislated another pay raise for minimum wage workers, this time to 13 dollar an hour by 2017, or 27000 dollar a year to flip hamburgers or run a cash register and such.