The Real News Network
March 7, 2010
Economist Robert Pollin discusses the relationship between real wages and inflation. He points out the stagnation of real wages coupled by gains in productivity in the United States.
Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the U.S.
