*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: America’s slow-motion wage crisis Author: John Schmitt https://www.epi.org/people/john-schmitt/, Elise Gould https://www.epi.org/people/elise-gould/, and Josh Bivens https://www.epi.org/people/josh-bivens/ Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

*Date: * Sept 28, 2018 Summary: For the last four decades, the United States has been experiencing a slow-motion wage crisis. From the end of World War II through the late 1970s, the U.S. economy generated rapid wage growth that was widely shared.1 https://www.epi.org/publication/americas-slow-motion-wage-crisis-four-decades-of-slow-and-unequal-growth/#_note1 Since 1979, however, average wage growth has decelerated sharply, with the biggest declines in wage growth at the bottom and the middle. Link: http://bit.ly/2xIosOg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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