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Title: Workers Are Getting a Bit More of the Economic Pie (and Shareholders Less) Author: Neil Irwin Source: NY Times

*Date:* May 11, 2016 Summary: American workers are reaping fewer of the gains of a growing economy in the form of pay and benefits. Shareholders are reaping more in the form of corporate profits. That shift has been one of the most important economic stories of the last several decades, and it is the key to understanding stagnant wages for middle-class workers and a soaring stock market in the last quarter-century.

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