{"id":300472,"date":"2021-09-06T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=213668"},"modified":"2021-09-06T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:55:53","slug":"us-labors-future-may-depend-on-monetary-and-fiscal-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/06\/us-labors-future-may-depend-on-monetary-and-fiscal-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"US Labor\u2019s Future May Depend on Monetary and Fiscal Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day is a good time to reflect upon how American workers have been doing \u2014 especially the majority who have been left behind for most of the past 40 years. From 1979 to 2018, the median wage has grown by just 11.6 percent. If we compare this to prior decades, e.g., 1948 to 1979,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/06\/us-labors-future-may-depend-on-monetary-and-fiscal-policy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/06\/us-labors-future-may-depend-on-monetary-and-fiscal-policy\/\">US Labor&#8217;s Future May Depend on Monetary and Fiscal Policy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/06\/us-labors-future-may-depend-on-monetary-and-fiscal-policy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day is a good time to reflect upon how American workers have been doing \u2014 especially the majority who have been left behind for most of the past 40 years. From 1979 to 2018, the median wage has grown by just 11.6 percent. If we compare this to pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300532,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300472\/revisions\/300532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}