- 144% – Growth of corporate profits since the bottom of the recession in September 2008.
- 4.27% – Real wage growth since September 2008, adjusted by chained CPI and average hours worked.
- 51% – Growth of corporate profits since December 2008.
- -1.25% – Real hourly wage growth since December 2008, adjusted by chained CPI and average hours worked.
- 7.3% – The official BLS unemployment rate.
- 17.3% – Unemployed plus marginally attached workers and those employed part-time for economic reasons.
- 23% – Unemployed, marginally attached workers, employed part-time for economic reasons and discouraged workers.
- 25% – Deficit between the 169,000 average jobs added per month over the last 3 years in the U.S. and the 225,000 jobs needed to maintain a steady number of working Americans.
- 76% – Percentage of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
- 46% – Percentage of Americans with less than $800 saved.
- 22% – Percentage of Americans with nothing saved at all.
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