What should you be making?

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What should you be making?

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Economic inequality is a real and growing problem in America. Since 1979, workers are working more, making more goods, and not reaping the rewards of their increased productivity.

What should you be making?

In honor of Labor Day, our colleagues at the Economic Policy Institute made a little tool — based on their project inequality.is — that shows how much you would be making if wages had kept pace with productivity, a key indicator of an economy working for all.

As they explain,

Economic inequality is a real and growing problem in America. Since 1979, workers are working more, making more goods, and not reaping the rewards of their increased productivity. Instead, CEOs and executives — the top 1% of earners — now take home 20% of the nation’s income.

But it doesn’t have to be like this. Growing inequality isn’t an inevitability — it was created. It’s the result of intentional policy decisions on taxes, trade, labor, and financial regulation. But that’s the good news: if inequality is not inevitable, then it can be fixed.

Take a look — click here and then put your income into the box and learn what you should be making.

Share this with your friends.

And remember that American workers should be earning more. Visit inequality.is. And to learn more about inequality in Oregon visit The State of Working Oregon .

 


This post was originally published on www.blueoregon.com on August 30, 2013. The original post can be found at http://www.blueoregon.com/2013/08/what-should-you-be-making/.

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Written by staff at the Oregon Center for Public Policy.
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Chuck Sheketoff

Chuck Sheketoff is a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy and former Executive Director. Incorporated in 1995, the Center was launched with Chuck as its first executive director after Chuck received the "public interest pioneer award" from the Stern Family Fund in September, 1997. Prior to starting the Center, Chuck lobbied the Oregon legislature on tax policies and on human services programs' policies and budgets on behalf of legal aid clients (1992 to 1996) and the low-income clients of the Oregon Law Center (1997).

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