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By any measure, the U.S. economy is massive. Like the sea, our economy is swept by cross currents and changed by forces beyond its control. Yet, its sheer size means that those forces - increased productivity, rising unemployment, dropping interest rates, global competition -- may only be felt months and often years after they are first sighted. Economic Trends tries to track those forces so IAM members can prepare their families for what lies just over the horizon ...
Links to Information on Economic Trends and Issues Affecting IAM Members Everyday
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Economic Facts and Figures: Monthly stats on employment, earnings, trade, prices and more. (DOL, BLS) | ||
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AFL-CIO Quick Takes on the Jobs Reports: From the AFL-CIO Press Room AFL-CIO General Press Releases on Current Topics that Matter: More from the AFL-CIO Press Room AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch: Check out what the Top 1 Percent is making and how you compare. Get the Facts: Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement(AFL-CIO, 2014) |
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Making Jobs Good:This report by John Schmitt and Janelle Jones, evaluates the likely impact of several policies that seek to address job quality, including universal health insurance, a universal retirement system (over and above Social Security), a large increase in college attainment, a large increase in unionization, and gender pay equity. (CEPR, 4/2013) The Chained CPI: A Painful Cut in Social Security Benefits and a Stealth Tax Hike: A report by Alan Barber and Nicole Woo (CEPR, 12/2012) Protecting Fundemental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States: A report by Kris Warner. (CEPR, 8/2012) Where Have Good Jobs Gone?: A study that links the decline in "good jobs" with deterioration of worker bargaining power. (8/2012) |
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Economic Indicators:Timely analysis of economic trends affecting IAM members. The Economic Policy Institute Newsroom The State of Working America: An ongoing analysis published since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute. Includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, jobs, unemployment, wealth, and poverty that allow for a clear, unbiased understanding of the economy's effect on the living standards of working Americans. CEO Pay Continues to Rise as Typical Workers are Paid Less: Report by Lawrence Mishel & Alyssa Davis (EPI, 6/12/2014) Raising America's Pay - 2014 Report: Why It's Our Central Economic Policy Challenge: This report is the first in a series from Raising America’s Pay, a multiyear research and public education initiative of the Economic Policy Institute to make wage growth an urgent national policy priority. Raising America’s Pay identifies broad-based wage growth as the central economic challenge of our time—essential to alleviating inequality, expanding the middle class, reducing poverty, generating shared prosperity, and sustaining economic growth. epi.org/pay (EPI, 6/4/2014) The Top 1 Percent’s Share of Income from Wealth Has Been Rising for Decades: Economic Snapshot on Inequality and Poverty. Article by Josh Bivens (EPI, 4/23/2014) CEO Pay in 2012 Was Extraordinarily High Relative to Typical Workers and Other High Earners (EPI, 6/2013) |
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The Congressional Budget Office
The Joint Economic Committee of The United States Congress
The Economic Costs of Debt-Ceiling Brinkmanship Report by the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress (9/2013)
The U.S. Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Library of Congress - Congressional Research Service
My Congresssional District Search Tool: Gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey which provides updated detailed demographic, social and economic statistics every year for the nation’s communities.
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States, 2012: Webinar (US Census, 9/2013)
Click Here for the Full Current Population Reports: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance in the United States, 2012 (US Census, 9/2013)
The U.S. Department of the Treasury
The Potential Macroeconomic Effect of Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship (US Dept. of Treasury, 10/2013)
Additional Publications with Reports, Articles and Helpful Information by Topic
The Economy
Blogs
The Economic Policy Institute Blog: Working Economics-EPI's experts opine daily on a wide range of current economic issues.
The Upshot: Explaining the Science of Everyday Life (The New York Times)
WONKBLOG (The Washington Post)
Economic Trends and Forecasts
The Roosevelt Institute's Daily Digest
The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) Quarterly Economic Forecast: This Quarter's headline - "Moderate Growth From A Deep Recession" (12/2013)
The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) Quarterly Economic Forecast: This Quarter's headline - "Sluggish Pace, Volatility, Optimism" (6/2013)
Good News on The Labor Market Front! Unemployment to Steadily Drop Over Next Six Months: "Unemployment should decline by more than 0.1 percent per month over the next six months and to fall below 6.5 percent—the Fed's unemployment threshold—by February 2014." A Brookings Blog Post by Regis Barnichon that discusses a monthly update of the Barnichon-Nekarda model. (Barnichon and Nekarda developed a model to forecast unemployment based on labor force flows—the number of workers moving into and out of unemployment each month.) (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 11/2013)
Data Brief - The Low Wage Recovery: Industry Employment and Wages Four Years into the Recovery, 2014 Report: (NELP, 4/2014)
Where Poor and Uninsured Americans Live: "The 26 Republican-dominated states not participating in an expansion of Medicaid are home to a disproportionate share of the nation’s poorest uninsured residents. Eight million will be stranded without insurance" (The New York Times, 10/2013)
Prosperity Economics: Building an Economy for All: A report in which the authors, Jacob S. Hacker (Director of ISPS) and Nate Loewentheil (Yale), lay out an alternative to austerity economics, one based on our history, the successful experiences of other nations, and recent currents of research and theory in economics and allied fields called. They call this model "prosperity economics." (8/2012)
Closing the Jobs Gap: Each month, The Hamilton Project examines the “jobs gap,” which is the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing the people who enter the labor force each month.
Health Care
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us: A special report by Time Magazine's Steven Brill (2/2013)
Pension Retirement & Security Issues (under construction)
Right to Work (for less)
Right to Work: A Failed Policy (2/2012)
What 'Right-to-Work' Means for Indiana's Workers - A Pay Cut: An article that looks at what happens in states with this anti-worker legislation. (1/2012)
Working Hard to Make Indiana Look Bad: The Tortured, Uphill Case for 'Right-to-Work': A report that looks at the lies in a study used to support this anti-worker legislation. (1/2011)
Additonal Topics
Paul Ryan - Facts You Need To Know!: Ten facts about Ryan's budget, voting record and plan for the middle class. (8/2012)
