The Center for American Progress’ Action Fund (CAPAF) looked at the income of the middle 60 percent of households in 2012. Middle-class families in U.S. states with the lowest unionization rates -- North Carolina, Arkansas, South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia -- all earned below average income, while those in four of the five most unionized states -- Alaska, Hawaii, Washington and Rhode Island -- earned above average incomes.
But CAPAF also delved deeper to uncover wider income disparities:Further illustrating this divide is the gap between the average percent of total state income going to the middle class in the top 10 and bottom 10 most-unionized states. In the top 10 most-unionized states, households in the middle class received 47.4 percent of total state income on average; in the bottom 10 states, households in the middle class received only 46.8 percent. While a difference of 0.6 percentage points may not initially appear large, in 2012, 0.6 percent of Pennsylvania’s aggregate income, for example, would have equaled over $2 billion, or almost $700 per middle-class household.
Advertisement
You have just read the article News for today's that category middle class /
unions /
wages
by title Unions help improve salaries for all, group finds. You can bookmark this page with a URL http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/09/unions-help-improve-salaries-for-all.html. Thank you!
Posted by: Tukiyooo
Unions help improve salaries for all, group finds Updated at :
1:18 PM
Monday, September 23, 2013
Post a Comment