Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — Wages in the United States. [ARTICLE]

Wages in the United States.

A recent searching investigation indicates that the claims made for the average high wages paid in this country are not well founded on fact. In a book just published, “Wages In the United States,” the author, Dr. Scott Nearing, the economic writer of the University of Pennsylvania, who has made a long and systematic study of the subject, says that a large proportion of American workmen are unable to maintain an efficient standard of living- Three-fourths of the adult men and nineteen-twentieths of tbe adult women, he says, actually earn less than S6OO a year, or to give his conclusions more in detail, one-half of the men are earning less than SSOO a year, three-fourths less than S6OO, nine-tenths less than SBOO, while less than ten pdr cent receive more than that figure. Of the women, one-fifth earn less than S2OO annually, and three-fifths less than $250, while only one-twentieth earn more than S6OO.