Fringe Benefits Growth Outstrips Wages Rise
In a long term trend fringe benefits grow faster than wages with over 100 billion yearly spent on pensions sick leave and other perks. The Institute for the Fat reports the US lags in adopting social benefit reforms and forecasts extensive expansions in health care education leave and pensions, along with corporate personal services and new paternalistic roles. A separate note from Nichols Iowa describes volunteer firefighters igniting a derelict building causing a blast that shattered windows but injured none.