Distressing. That’s our verdict after studying this morning’s unemployment data for June. Paul Solman’s U7 measure of unemployment rose to 16.91 percent, up 0.18 percent from May.
The minimum wage is now about more than 40 percent below the federal poverty line.
via Paul Solman and Oregon State’s “Minimum Wage History”.
(PHOTO: A waitress carries a pizza to customers at Gino’s East restaurant in Chicago. Wait staff in Illinois earn $2.13 an hour, before tips. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images.)
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“Study after study, it turns out, finds conservatives happier than liberals.”
A report from Paul Solman on why that may be.
Interesting fact from @PaulSolman this morning.
If you didn’t know, this whole situation in Europe is a pretty big deal.
In downtown Manhattan this week, as in Herman Cain’s speech to the Conservatives for Political Action convention back in February and elsewhere in the Republican litany, you hear the same shared article of faith: the American Dream is gone. The desperate aim of both camps is to restore it.
Paul Solman reports from a day with the occupiers of Wall Street.
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