According the this report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), real earnings from April to May 2000 declined 0.3 percent. This drop may have contributed to the 0.3 percent decline in average weekly hours as well as the 0.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.

The Economic Research Service division of the United States Department of Agriculture has published a number of insightful and thoughtful studies in its long history, and this study by Dean Jolliffe lives up to those exacting standards. Released in September 2006, the paper takes a critical look at the location of poverty across urban and rural areas in the United States. Drawing on a variety of...

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