Two Recoveries A look at U.S. income inequality
- Soup cans
& stock options
STORY | GRAPHIC - Disparity on
factory floor
STORY | GRAPHIC - Harvest
of inequality
STORY | GRAPHIC - Memphis
blues
STORY | GRAPHIC - Generation Y
dreams fade
STORY - Fast food,
meager pay
STORY
Income inequality in the U.S. was the widest in more than four decades last year. The price of saving the nation’s auto industry was to foster such inequality on the factory floors of Detroit: Members of the United Autoworkers union who are newly hired at GM, Ford and Chrysler work for less than the average U.S. manufacturing wage after the union agreed in 2007 to two-tier wage and benefit contracts.
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