Are We at the Peak of Employment and Wages?
By Lance Gaitan Talk about volatility! The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7%, but the expected 190,000 non-farm jobs missed the bar by 35,000, only managing 155,000. To add to that … Read more
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Facebook wages “online ethnic cleansing” of independent media to silence pro-America voices before the coming mid-term election
by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) Just as predicted, several hundred more independent news outlets have reportedly been removed from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook echo chamber over the weekend, including multiple pages that … Read more
Rising health-care costs are eating away at your wages and you may not even realize it
Via Marketwatch Health-care costs are quietly eating away at American wages. Employer-sponsored insurance premiums have jumped dramatically in the last 20 years, from almost $6,000 in 1999 to more than … Read more
Stagnant Wages, Yet Increasing Household Income…What Gives?
Every month for the last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ wage data releases have continued to demonstrate that workers simply aren’t getting ahead. Despite some nominal growth, real wage growth has been consistently hovering around zero (rising at just a 0.2 … Read more
Democrats Conned Low Wage Workers Into Pro Immigration That Lowers Their Wages
It is amazing how stupid low wage workers are to buy into the Democrat’s open borders unlimited immigration BS. It is a law of economics that the more of something … Read more
Why Do Wages Rise?
Many people believe the only path to higher wages is to put in more work hours, but there are actually many economic factors that go into deciding the number on … Read more
Missing wages, urine bottles: Disturbing delivery driver stories
via businessinsider: Business Insider spoke with 31 current or recently employed drivers about what it’s like to deliver packages for Amazon. Some drivers described a variety of alleged abuses, including lack of … Read more
We have a serious problem with real wages
by Shaun Richards One of the features of the early days of this website was the fact that there were regular replies/comments suggesting that wages and earnings would continue to … Read more
HOUSINGBUBBLE 2 – INFLATION OF EVERYTHING BESIDE WAGES
via @OccupyWisdom : #HOUSINGBUBBLE 2 #INFLATION OF EVERYTHING BESIDE WAGES NEW HOME 1938 – $3,900 NEW HOME 2018 – $328,700 MEDIAN INCOME 1938 – $1,731 MEDIAN INCOME 2018 – $31,099 1938 … Read more
AMAZON WAGES WAR VS BERNIE
Sanders has been dinging Amazon on Twitter and in public statements for months, claiming the company doesn’t pay its lower-level employees a fair wage. It’s a rare public response for … Read more
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Higher Minimum Wages Blamed for Closure of Iconic NYC Coffee Shop Where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Worked.
Socialists don’t have time to be looking back at the blazing trail of destruction they leave in their wake. via reason: Before she was the rising star of the progressive left, … Read more
Price inflation, the sinister byproduct of printing more and more fiat currency (which is the literal definition of ‘inflation’), means that even though the average US hourly wage has risen from about $4 in 1971 to $22.65 today, in actually buys less.
via pewresearch: On the face of it, these should be heady times for American workers. U.S. unemployment is as low as it’s been in nearly two decades (3.9% as of July) … Read more
HATE YOUNG PEOPLE? TRY A MINIMUM WAGE: More evidence of the harm minimum wages are doing to young people trying to gain job skills
This time from Minnesota: Following the minimum wage increases limited service restaurant employment fell by 4% in Minnesota relative to Wisconsin. Further, youth employment fell by 9% in Minnesota following … Read more
Rising Wages = Shrinking Corporate Profit Margins … And Falling Stock Prices?
by John Rubino Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a couple of charts that illustrate a relationship that’s not getting much media attention these days: The fact that tightening labor markets are forcing … Read more
LOW UNEMPLOYMENT & RISING WAGES? THAT’S HORRIBLE!!: Or at least that’s what CNBC thinks.
via newrepublic: Rising wages horrify CNBC but delight everyone else. On Thursday, the business news network tweeted: America’s labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who … Read more