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Title: Maintaining Full Employment Is the Key to Raising Wages Author: John Cassidy Source: The New Yorker

*Date:* Sept 18, 2017

*Summary:* What with all the stuff that has been going on in the U.S. and abroad, and with Captain Chaos tweeting away from the White House, there was some good news last week that deserves more attention than it received. According https://census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2017/demo/P60-259.pdf to the U.S. Census Bureau, the incomes of ordinary American households, after stagnating for more than a decade, are finally picking up. Link: http://bit.ly/2xjkUlB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library