Executive Council Statement
America Needs A Raise
… for workers have declined 12 percent. During that same period, 97 percent of the increase in household incomes has gone to the richest 20 percent of all households, with middle income families and the poor left to scramble over the remaining three percent. During the same period, productivity went up 24 percent and American workers … homes. Workers are having to labor harder and longer just to keep even, and more and more family members are having to work in order to maintain living standards. Working families have little money to spend, they are loaded with debt and they …