BLS usual weekly earnings are wage-and-salary earnings before taxes and deductions. They do not include the cash value of benefits such as employer-provided health insurance.
No. Labor productivity measures real output per hour worked. It measures production efficiency, not how the resulting income is distributed between workers, owners, or other recipients.
Narrative invalidation is repeated minimizing or dismissive framing that reduces the legitimacy or significance of a person’s or group’s documented experience. It can operate without denying that the event happened; instead, it changes what
No—not in every philosophical tradition. Republican political philosophy distinguishes freedom as non-interference from freedom as non-domination. In the non-domination tradition, a person is less free when another person or institution hol
BLS annual-average data for 2025 show that more than four in ten unemployed workers ages 55–64 had been unemployed for 15 weeks or longer.
The share of U.S. workers who were independent contractors on their sole or main job rose from 6.9% in May 2017 to 7.4% in July 2023.
A 2013 national survey of 510 obstetrics and gynecology residents — the doctors in training who will become women’s specialists — found that only about 20% reported their program had a formal menopause curriculum. About 70% said they wanted
The 1969 Brooke Amendment established a maximum tenant contribution of 25% of income for federally assisted housing. Congress raised the contribution to 30% in 1981.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, using U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey data, estimated that 43.5 million U.S. households were housing-cost burdened in 2024. That was 33% of all households, or about one in three.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s National Database of Childcare Prices found that full-day care for one child cost between 8.9% and 16.0% of median family income in 2022, with annual prices ranging from $6,552 to $15,600 depending on age, pro
