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On Labor Day, Poverty for Workers has fallen from 12.8% to 8.5%

Juan Cole 09/05/2021

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This Labor Day, American workers finally have something have to celebrate, by virtue of having voted for a Democratic president and Congress.

The pandemic-driven labor shortage has raised wages.

Direct payments from the government, including an expanded child tax credit and expanded unemployment benefits added $3,200 to the income of each worker, causing poverty to fall from 12.8 percent to 8.5 percent by last March. In 2021, Vox projects that poverty will fall to 7 percent, half the 2018 rate.

Economic growth could hit 7% this year, and 4.5% next year which will further reduce poverty.

Poor productivity growth since 2003 had reduced real wages for workers.

in contrast, general wealth inequality may have declined somewhat, despite the income rise for the .01 percent during the pandemic.

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Filed Under: Featured, Investment, Market Crash, Middle Class, Plutocracy, Poverty

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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