2013-01-28huffingtonpost.com

If you feel the economic recovery hasn't helped your pocketbook much, it's not just your imagination.

The annual wages of the bottom 90 percent of workers declined by 1.2 percent between 2009 and 2011 when adjusted for inflation, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Meanwhile, the top one percent's wages rose 8.2 percent during the same time period by the same measure.



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