You've heard the statistics: The median annual earnings for working (full-time) white women is 77 cents to a man's dollar.
Of these events, the Market Basket story is particularly instructive, because it represents how so-called shareholder capitalism puts pressure on managers to destroy job security and decent earnings for working people.
19 Given that (Hou and Bonikowska 2015) have data for the visa status of prefilers, they are able to evaluate differences in the earnings for prior work experience only, prior work and study experience, prior study experience, and prior other experience.
As the recession grew, the wealthy were finding new ways of encouraging poverty by keeping the poor on zero-hours contracts whose average hourly rates were 40% below the "normal" earnings for the work.
But Mr. Blitzer emphasized that it was too early to use core earnings for valuation work, because S.& P. has computed the data for only six quarters, back to the beginning of 2001, and only for companies in the S.& P. 500.
Combined with earnings for his work in the Broadway production "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," an endorsement deal with American Airlines and a book deal, the father of two raked in $18 million this year, up $3 million from 2013.
Yet it was during those same years that Sperling championed several initiatives that have become much celebrated by liberal economists, not least the expansion of the earned income tax credit, which significantly increased earnings for the working poor and lifted millions out of poverty.
The median weekly earnings for women working full time in 2014 were $719; for men working full time, weekly median earnings were $871.
Women, who account for 43.5% of people employed in the industry, earn $52,459 annually, far less than the median earnings for men working in the sector.
