Current data on jobs and wages show why workers rightly feel they are being left out of the economic recovery. Unemployment is at a quarter century high and the Congressional Budget Office predicts that unless stronger actions are taken, unemployment will remain above 10% in 2010, 9% in 2011, and 7% in 2012. This means that between 15 to 20% of the nation's human capital will remain unemployed, underemployed, or out of the labor force for the next three years -- clearly an unacceptable outcome that will further delay and weaken economic recovery. The wage data are equally unacceptable. Average worker incomes have been flat or fell during the recession. Nor did they grow over the seven years of the past economic recovery. Indeed, workers have been getting a declining share of the productivity they helped create (most of it went to those in the top one percent of the income distribution) for the past three decades. Unless more direct action is taken, the earning power of existing and new jobs will remain stuck at the same levels they have been at for many years. Given that consumption accounts for 70% of the economy, a wage-less recovery translates to a weak and unsustainable recovery.  (read more at Huffington Post)