claim: "the typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
author: david axelrod
evidence_1: jan 6, 2015 ... congress and the president can pursue the return to full employment by making  public investments that can create both jobs and future productivity growth ....  from 1973 to 2013, hourly compensation of a typical (production/nonsupervisory)  worker rose just 9 percent while productivity increased 74 percent.
evidence_2: oct 9, 2014 ... for most u.s. workers, inflation-adjusted wages have been flat or falling for  decades, regardless of whether the economy has been adding or ... in fact, in real  terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: the $4.03-an-hour rate  recorded in january 1973 has the same purchasing power as ...
evidence_3: sep 18, 2015 ... the median male worker who was employed year-round and full time earned  less in 2014 than a similarly situated worker earned four decades ago. ... well,  they haven't closed the pay gap with men, but the inflation-adjusted earnings of  the median female worker increased more than 30% between 1973 ...
evidence_4: jun 12, 2014 ... average ceo compensation was $15.2 million in 2013, using a comprehensive  measure of ceo pay that covers ceos of the top 350 u.s. firms and .... we make  one exception to this selection criteria, which is to exclude facebook from the  samples in 2012 and 2013 (the only years for which the firm has ...
evidence_5: jun 15, 2008 ... make difficult decisions about whether they would be better off if the homemaker  were to take a paying job. also, retired people may volunteer in work activities for  which people are usually paid. their work is not counted in the labor force. many  other “workers” also go uncounted for a variety of rea- sons.