Przed dniem Pracy w USA dzienniki przypominaja o stytuacji USA i nieszczegolnej pozycji gospodarczej USA. Przypominaja ze w latach najlepszych i najwiekszego rozkwitu Ameryki place wzrosly w latach1946 -1973 o 80%, proporcjonalnie do wzrostu wydajnosci pracy... Ale od roku 1973 do 2003 wydajnosc wzrosla o 66% natomiast nominalne place zaledwie o 7% nie liczac inflacji..liczac obecne zarobki sa o 23% mniejszeniz byly w roku 2967 liczac ich sile nabywcza.... ...................................
If ever there was a Labor Day for American workers to celebrate, this sure isn't the one. It's now 30 years since the end of the "golden era" for American labor, which by most accounting ended in 1973. Over the past 30 years the productivity of the people whose brain and muscle creates the wealth of the world's richest nation has grown by 66 percent. But the wage of the typical employee – the median wage – has grown by only 7 percent.
This one statistic says more than the volumes of hype and tripe that will fill the papers and the air waves on Labor Day. It encapsulates the most massive redistribution of income in American history, from the poor, from workers, from former middle classes – to the rich and the super-rich. As billionaire Warren Buffett said to ABC's Ted Koppel last month, "If it's class warfare, my class is winning."
What these numbers mean is that while American labor has continued producing more goods and services, the vast majority of employees have barely shared at all in the fruits of their increasing productivity. Compare these past 30 years with the first half of the post World War II era (1946-1973), when the typical wage grew by nearly 80 percent, or about in line with productivity growth.
At the lower rungs of the economic ladder, the results of this "regime change" are even more pronounced. Ten million minimum wage workers – 71 percent of whom are not teenagers – now earn about 23 percent less, in terms of real purchasing power, than they did in 1967.
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