so things like paid family leave, things like abating student debt. all of these things would make the dollar in a wage increase go further and these are the kind of policies that one can pursue. but the biggest policy is, you know, let workers organize in a real way, not have companies try to stop it in every which way so let me ask you about this. let s just look at workers organizing. 10.7%, according to the bureau of labor statistics, you and i both like citing their numbers. 10.7% of u.s. workers are unionized. 6.5% of private sector workers are union sized. 34.4% of public sector workers are unionized. those numbers continue to go down and americans seem accepting of that. strikes aren t what they used to be, people cross picket lines more than they used to. they re more than the exception than the rule these days.
paycheck, i had to pay the fee. no one asked me but i wasn t given the opportunity to say yes which is the ability to say no. mary mack justice neil goresuch remained silent through the oral argument. at the city college of new york, thank you for joining us. let s take a look at some of the numbers, members of the media, 14.8 million workers are part of unions, 34.4% of the public sector workers are union members but 6.5% in the private sector are in unions which when you look at the numbers, 300 million people in this country, 15 million part of unions, why does
and even that number came down slightly. average hourly earnings also rose. you re looking at from this time last year, you re being paid about 2.5% more. not a huge amount but, hey, moving in the right direction. workweek also rose. the average workweek for most american workers is 34.4 hours. lot of stats. look for this report monday along with positive corporate earnings, sandra, to really give the market a shot in the arm as we get past that french election. sandra: i suppose i would ask, based on this looking like such a strong jobs report, analysts are giving this a thumbs up. then you look at the market and the dow. only up about 17 points. but it s still sitting at very lofty levels, right? still up there near record highs for the u.s. stock market averages. yeah. in fact, we are looking at gains for the entire week. modest gains, but gains nonetheless. you ve got a market share that s
collects local reviews of handy man. diller owns home adviser. it could be combined. watch the stocks today. fascinating information this morning. get this, a record share of young women are living at home. according to a new study from pew, 34.4% of women 18 to 34 lived with their families last year. that tops the peak set in 1940. young men are living at home longer. the cultural shift of marrying later is a cause due to financial debt. you wrote a whole book. i don t think it is a bad thing people are living at home. when they start to move out, they will be good for the
greece has the most generous pension plans in the world. if you were a hairdresser, you could retire at 55 with full benefits. but in any event, when you add it up greece was spending 134.4% on the gdp on pensions. that is the high nest europe. it is much higher than the united states which is at 8.5%. and it was on a gentleman trekttrajectory to be 25% by 2050. they re focused on getting greece to change behavior is in tax collections. joe talked a lot about this. this is a different cut. this looks at how each country in europe how successful it is at imposing the vat, the sales tax. how many things it exempts, how good it is at collecting. a lot of greeks do not pay taxes. again, you can see that greece has the lowest ratio of vat tax