If you worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, you would earn $13,624.
Jonathan Tasini, Huffington Post
Americans are donating $225 billion a year in unpaid work to people who already earn far more than they do.
African-American males only earn $38,478 compared with $55,354 for white males with equal education.
At the current rate of change, it could take women 47 years to reach parity with men as corporate officers of Fortune 500 companies.
Men file 14% of sexual harassment cases
43% of U.S. workers admit to having dated a co-worker
More workers filed discrimination complaints with the EEOC last year than in each of the three previous years.
U.S. Census Bureau: 2005 median income for white households was $48,554, while that of black households was only $30,858.
25.3% of women in two-income marriages bring home the bigger paycheck, up from 17.8% in 1987.
The United States lags far behind all wealthy countries with regard to family-oriented workplace policies such as maternity leave, paid sick days and support for breast-feeding.
Immigrants with the lightest skin earned an average of 8% to 15% more than similar immigrants with much darker skin.
Union membership dropped to 12% of U.S. workers last year, extending a steady decline from the 1950s when more than 1/3 belonged to unions.
In California alone, investments in clean technology could create up to 114,000 new jobs by 2010.
1 in 6 Americans reports having been bullied at work.
Telecommuters are less likely to get promoted than peers who head into the office every day.
Employees who were union activists or organizers had a 15% to 20% chance of being fired in 2005.
80% of voters--and 65% of Republican voters--believe America's workers deserve a raise.
Pregnancy-discrimination complaints rose 14% between 2000 and 2005.
The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee paid sick days for all workers.
Goldman Sachs workers probably earned the best hourly wages in the world: an average of about $200 per hour.
16% of corporate officers at Fortune 500 companies are women.
Almost 3/4 of Americans believe inequality is a major issue.
Almost 1 in 5 companies allows pets in the workplace.
A weight increase of 64 pounds for white women was associated with 9% lower wages.
Rail industry expects to hire 80,000 new workers over the next 6 years.
15% of companies offer the option of selling time, in which employees trade paid vacation for money.
The average income for the top 1% of American taxpaying households was $940,000 in 2004.
Workers in offices with carpeting are 1.73 times more likely to develop asthma.
52% of all parents say that their kids are going to be worse off than they are.
College tuition and fees are up 290% in the past 20 years.
Enrollment in technical education soared from 9.6 million students in 1999 to 15.1 million in 2004.





