( - promoted by Dean Barker)
Talk about a mixed bag...
A new report from the Carsey Institute at UNH says "while New Hampshire workers have fared well compared with other New England states, wages have stagnated and full-time workers now form a smaller share of the labor force."
You can read the press release summarizing the report and click through to the full study by the Institute's Allison Churilla for the details.
Some nuggets:
The median wage in the state is $17.25/hr, the lowest in five years. I'll save you the math: That's $646.88 for a 37.5 hr. week, gross, before deductions, just under $34K a year.
Hourly wages for the state's lowest paid workers have declined seven percent in the last five years.
More of us are working part-time than before. The share of full-time workers is slipping as more people are forced to take part-time positions.
New Hampshire is doing much better than our New England neighbors and many other areas of the country - try finding a decent job in northwestern Indiana these days - but even here the dream of hard work leading to economic security and a better tomorrow is in jeopardy. |
