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Mark Pocan: “Since 1973 productivity has gone up 74 percent. The hourly compensation for a typical worker in the same period has gone…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2015
Since 1973 productivity has gone up 74 percent. The hourly compensation for a typical worker in the same period has gone up 9 percent. The average CEO pay during that same period, 937 percent.
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Mark Pocan
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Pocan highlights the disparity between productivity and worker compensation compared to CEO pay.

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