US wages and productivity 1968 – 2012 (minimum, average and The 1%)David, thank you, and Dean Baker for keeping the discussion broad, not limiting it to links to just inflation, although I do note that Dean, in follow up postings to his Feb. 12th, 2013 CEPR Blog with Will Kimball, raises the issue of – the difficulty – of implementing his middle figure of $16.54 cents per hour (arrived at by a conservative methodology) all at once, suggests it could not be done w
