Sizing Up Hillary Clinton’s Plans to Help the Middle Class
More than 30 percent of men in their prime are either unemployed or earn less than what’s needed to keep a family of four out of poverty, according to estimates by Lawrence Katz of Harvard.
.. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that wages in the middle of the distribution have increased by all of 6 percent since 1979.
.. For this she would have an extremely powerful force on her side: demography.
“The labor force is already shrinking,” said Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist who served as chief economic adviser to President Obama from late 2011 to the summer of 2013. “As it gets harder to hire, companies will come around to recognize that investments in their work force are in their long-term interest.”