Feel like you're working harder, yet struggling more than ever?

[mikedunnauthor@kolektiva.social]

Feel like you're working harder, yet struggling more than ever?

Here's why: Labor's share of the U.S.’s economic output (e.g. wages) decreased to 53.8% in the third quarter of 2025, its lowest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) started recording this data in 1947.

Meanwhile, share captured by corporate profits rose to its highest level since 1950.

Hourly wages have increased 3% since the end of 2019, while corporate profits have risen 50%.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, worker productivity has increased 90% since 1979, while wages have only grown 33%. If wages rose at the same rate as productivity, we'd all be making an additional $16/hour.

https://fortune.com/2026/01/13/us-workers-smallest-labor-share-gdp-on-record/

#classWar #poverty #wages #oligarchs