The Truth About America’s Economy

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—“Inflation Calculator.” Accessed June 3, 2016. http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

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Desilver, Drew. “For Most Workers, Real Wages have Barely Budged for Decades.” Pew Research Center (2014).

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private, Jan 1964- Oct 2016.” Accessed Nov 20, 2016. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series?t=wages

—“Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons (u6RATE).” Accessed May 23, 2016. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE

Hipple, Steven F. “People Who Are Not in the Labor Force: Why Aren’t they Working?” Bureau of Labor Statistics: Beyond the Numbers (4), 2015.

Maddison, Angus. The World Economy: Historical Statistics. Paris, OECD Publishing, 2003.

Muro, Mark, et al. “America’s Advanced Industries: what are they, where are they, and why they matter.” Brooking’s Institute, 2015.

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United States Census Bureau. “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014.” Accessed May 28, 2016. http://www.census.gov/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.html

—“Trade in Goods, 1985-2016.” Accessed May 20, 2016. https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

World Bank, “GDP by PPP Statistics.” Accessed May 15. https://knoema.com/mhrzolg/gdp-statistics-from-the-world-bank?country=United%20States