Showing posts with label W-2 payrolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label W-2 payrolls. Show all posts
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Earning $100k ain't what it used to be: It used to be a more exclusive club

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 In 2023 earning $100k made you top 15% of wage earners, but in 2018 it made you top 10%. $125k is the new top 10%.   2018 2023    
Friday, November 5, 2021

This negative jobs growth trend should have everyone up in arms, but instead we shrug, retreat, and self-medicate

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 What has any politician done for you and your kids in 20 years?

Job creation under Trump in 2019 using W-2 payroll data actually looks pretty crappy based on the most recent figures out in October: The worst in eight years

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Monday, December 9, 2019

Paid family leave for federal government's already Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs) likely to cost taxpayers $6 billion over ten years

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Some Democratic aides think the proposed federal benefits package would cost about $3 billion, though there is disagreement about whethe...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

MIT's living wage calculator is a joke

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Living Wage Calculator For my location and our family size we have been getting by on at least 1/3 less than the calculator says we nee...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

W-2 payroll data for 2017 just out shows huge slowdown to monthly additions from 2016

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Monthly additions dropped from 227,000 (revised up 4,000) in 2016 to 160,000 in 2017 (figures rounded to the nearest thousand). There ...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

How to tax the rich and only the rich as originally intended in 1913, and solve a lot of problems

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In 1913 when the average Joe made about $800 a year, the first income tax under the 16th Amendment didn't worry him because he didn...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

America's three middle classes accounted for 56.5% of total 2016 net compensation of $7.627 trillion

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The lower classes accounted for only 13.6% of the total net compensation  in 2016 and the upper classes for 29.9%. The three middle cl...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Job creation in 2016 is the closest we've come to "robust" since the year 2000

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The W-2 data clearly show that the vast majority of the job losses during the crisis occurred under Obama, not Bush
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Bush W-2 employment 2004-07 narrowly beats Obama's 2011-14

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Bush gains in W-2 employment: 2004 1.7 million 2005 2.2 million 2006 2.3 million 2007 1.7 million total  7.9 million O...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

The Workforce Depression Of 2007 Remains 4.19 Million In The Hole According To Social Security

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The size of the workforce earning wages for Social Security purposes went into multi-year depressions since 1990 three times: 1990, 2001 an...