Numlock News: April 22, 2022 • Refs, Bradford Pears, Edibles
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By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Sorry if you were one of the readers who had a late email delivery yesterday, I have been told the issue has been fixed once and for all. Boss Makes A Dollar, I Make A Dime A new analysis of the pay practices of 22 major American companies found that over the course of the pandemic, the overwhelming majority of the gains made went to shareholders rather than workers. In the first 22 months of the pandemic, the average real wage gain was between 2 percent and 5 percent through October of 2021, though recent inflation probably means that wage gain is actually a bit of a wash. The 7 million workers for those companies, all told, received $27 billion in aggregate pay, which at first sounds neat, until you hear that the shareholders of the 22 companies all told grew
Numlock News: April 22, 2022 • Refs, Bradford Pears, Edibles
Numlock News: April 22, 2022 • Refs, Bradford…
Numlock News: April 22, 2022 • Refs, Bradford Pears, Edibles
By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Sorry if you were one of the readers who had a late email delivery yesterday, I have been told the issue has been fixed once and for all. Boss Makes A Dollar, I Make A Dime A new analysis of the pay practices of 22 major American companies found that over the course of the pandemic, the overwhelming majority of the gains made went to shareholders rather than workers. In the first 22 months of the pandemic, the average real wage gain was between 2 percent and 5 percent through October of 2021, though recent inflation probably means that wage gain is actually a bit of a wash. The 7 million workers for those companies, all told, received $27 billion in aggregate pay, which at first sounds neat, until you hear that the shareholders of the 22 companies all told grew