LA DISMINUCIÓN DEL SALARIO REAL

Para una mirada seria a lo que está ocurriendo con el salario real de los trabajadores, debe examinarse este artículo de Robert Reich, profesor de Políticas Públicas y antiguo Secretario del Trabajo del Presidente Clinton: "The Root of Economic Fragility and Political Anger".

Missing from almost all discussion of America’s dizzying rate of unemployment is the brute fact that hourly wages of people with jobs have been dropping, adjusted for inflation. Average weekly earnings rose a bit this spring only because the typical worker put in more hours, but June’s decline in average hours pushed weekly paychecks down at an annualized rate of 4.5 percent. continuar