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Event Video: How to Get American Workers a Raise: Policies to Revitalize Wage Growth

February 28, 2018 Employment & Wages

One simple question—Are wages rising?—is as central to the health of our democracy as it is to the health of our economy. For the last few decades, the U.S. economy has experienced real wage stagnation. On February 28, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution hosted a forum to explore the most effective policy options to revitalize wage growth.