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 ...
Click on the following links for information on Economic Trends:
Economic Facts and Figures: Up-to the minute stats on employment, earnings, trade, prices and more.
Economic Indicators: Timely analysis of economic trends affecting IAM members.
AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch: Check out what the Top 1 Percent is making and how you compare.
The Center for American Progress: A nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all.
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 and the Top 1%: How the Executive Compensation and Financial-Sector Pay Have Fueled Income Inequality (EPI, 5/2012)
Unions Make Democracy Work for the Middle Class (1/2012)
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).
Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007: A report from the Congressional Budget Office (10/2011).
Critics Still Wrong on What's Driving Deficits in Coming Years: A special report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (6/2010).
Boeing's Cash Cow (A Corporate Strategy's Impact on Middle-Class America): A report from the Institute for Wisconsin's Future (4/2010).
Evaluating China-U.S. Trade Relations over the Past Decade: Testimony by AFL-CIO Deputy Chief of Staff Thea Lee (6/2010).
China’s Promotion of the Renewable Electric Power Equipment Industry: Hydro, Wind, Solar, Biomass: Press release by the National Foreign Trade Council, a business trade association (3/2010).
Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs: A report by Robert Scott (3/2010).
