Who’s getting the cookies?

A commenter questioned whether the joke about The CEO, the Tea Partier and the union guy accurately described who’s getting the cookies.

Well, there are plenty of cookies being baked, but the majority of working people aren’t getting them, and this includes government workers.

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But some people have been getting a lot of cookies.

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Click on The sad but true story of wages in America for analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank in Washington, D.C.

Last year U.S. corporate profits reached the highest level on record.  Click on Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment for analysis on the Angry Bear web log.

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Click on The State of Working America for the interactive version of this chart.

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While the CEO is doing pretty well, the union guy doesn’t have all that much clout.

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Tags: Executive pay, Income inequality