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Title: Washington Post “Wage Freeze” Brain Freeze http://www.epi.org/blog/washington-post-wage-freeze-brain-freeze/

*Author:* Lawrence Mishel

*Source: *Economic Policy Institute

*Date:* Nov 18, 2014

*Summary**:* The* Washi*

*gton Post* published an editorial on the “wage freeze http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/middle-class-income-stagnation-is-a-threat-to-the-nations-health/2014/11/15/7589ceaa-6c35-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html” on Sunday, revealing the emptiness of its analysis and offering no recommendations for generating wage growth. At least there was acknowledgment of the problem, that “middle-class family incomes are still not growing very much” and “average income for the bottom 90 percent http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/structural_challenges_and_opportunities_in_the_u.s._economy_11.5.14_jf.pdf of households has barely grown at all, in real terms, over the last four decades.”

*Link: *http://bit.ly/1tePGiL

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