Two measures that economists most commonly use for inflation-adjusted wages show that wages are higher now than five decades ...

No. Senator Sanders’s data relies on a blip in 1973. Economists show wages are actually higher now than 50 years ago.

Nixon combined an appeal to white working-class values with some decidedly un-Republican economic policies: a price and wage ...

In a Nov. 10 appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., dismissed a question from host Dana Bash ...

Nixon declared himself a Keynesian ... There was Phase One, designed as an emergency measure to freeze wages and prices so as to halt the inflationary trend. The Second Phase is to be of more ...

A wage freeze starting in 1942 forced employers to ... a competing proposal came from an unexpected source: Richard Nixon's White House. But that was always intended to be ancillary to Nixon's ...

At the national level, we’ve been down this path before. President Richard Nixon’s freeze on prices and wages in 1971 provided some temporary inflation relief, but at the cost of a decade of ...

A wage freeze starting in 1942 forced employers to find other means ... a competing proposal came from an unexpected source: ...

Roosevelt signed the first federal minimum wage into place in 1938 amid the Great Depression. President Richard Nixon ... price controls to tame inflation in the 1970s. Among them: A 90-day ...

The Halloween package included a raft of treats - including a cut to pub beer prices, and hikes in the minimum wage and state pension ... ruled out extending a freeze on income tax thresholds ...