That the specter of joblessness grows,
Except for the few
Making mega-bucks, who,
In their number, substantially rose.
The Social Security Administration released its Wage Statistics for 2010, and - with one glaring exception - they tell a sorry tale. Journalist and author David Cay Johnston crunched the numbers and found that
There were fewer jobs and they paid less last year except at the very top, where the number of people making more than $1 million increased by 20 percent over 2009. The median paycheck — half made more, half less — fell again in 2010, down 1.2 percent to $26,364. That works out to $507 a week, the lowest level, after adjusting for inflation, since 1999. The number of Americans with any work fell again last year, down by more than a half million from 2009 to less than 150.4 million.
Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz, who notes the obvious statistical underpinning for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Good one!
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