HIST 100 San Jose State University Wk 12 Inequality In Pay Essay

III. Analyze the Evidence (PLEASE FOLLOW THE CHART IN THE ATTACHMENT)

Question: How does the decline in workers’ pay and social mobility of Americans parallel the increase in income inequality identified by Robert Reich?

• In the first table, write a summary sentence for each graph–Wages and Productivity, Average Wages, CEO Pay, and Average Income, 1918-2008 and Personal Savings Rate, 1929-2009–about the decline in workers’ pay.
• Do the same in the second table on social mobility.
• Examine the graph of The Share of Income of the Top 1% of Americans in Background and the information in these two tables

• Write 50 words that either support or disagree with Reich’s thesis–there is a parallel relationship between the rise in income of the top one percent of American families and the decline in workers’ wages and in social mobility.