Wages Down, Consumers Spend Less, Growth Slows

03/10/2011 | Filed under: News,The Economy | Posted by:
Workers make less, spend less.

Workers make less, spend less.

From Bloomberg News: Take-home pay and wages, adjusted for prices, fell 0.3 percent in August, the third decrease in five months, and personal income dropped for the first time in two years, the Commerce Department reported last week. The declines followed news from the Census Bureau that median household income in 2010 fell to $49,445, the lowest in more than a decade, and the poverty rate jumped to 15.1 percent, a 17-year high.

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