[joshua c]

What’s causing the wage stagnation?

Obama

[kabar]

Surplus of workers.

[mountn man]

Can't raise wages when profits aren't rising.

Higher profits equal higher wages.

[marron]

He hasn’t heard that we’ve lost a million jobs over the last few years? Something like that has a tendency to keep wages down.

Is he from Mars?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wide-spread incompetence? Not working for a commission?

[Red Badger]

Illegals.......................

[PROCON]

Uh...Global Warming?

[kingu]

Are benefits calculated in these ‘stagnant’ wages? Going to bet those weren't calculated. Most employees have received substantial raises, just not to their pocket. Especially with the inane requirements that ObamaCare compliant policies not only include maternity coverage, but also are forbidden from charging different based on gender.

Especially hard hit are companies which have a substantially mature workforce. Those employees generally forgo any maternity coverage in their policies.

Add in local laws mandating sick leave, holidays and even mandatory vacation time, most employee costs are skyrocketing while wages have remained flat.

[I want the USA back]

Too few job openings because this administration and democrats have done everything possible to destroy businesses.

[pierrem15]

1. Unrestricted immigration, both legal and illegal.

2. Lunatic "free" trade policies that undercut American businesses and that lead to the transfer of American technology overseas

You want to see wages rise? Create a labor shortage by restricting immigration at both the top and bottom and where businesses have an incentive to hire because they have a market that's not undercut by unfair foreign competition.

You know, the way we were from 1945 - 1965, when the average projected lifetime earnings of a high school graduate were higher than those of a college graduate.

[Organic Panic]

Obviously the only solution is to import millions of unskilled uneducated workers from the third world.

[OldMissileer]

It was just reported last month that the latest jobs numbers show over 70% of the jobs created were taken by leagal and illegal immigrants.

It is hard to get a good paycheck when employers can pay those people lower wages and under the table.

[Dead Corpse]

Taxation and over regulation preventing expansion and new markets.

Duh...

[Iron Munro]

The millions and millions of people out of work for so long they are no longer counted as unemployed?

[mjp]

Most of the increase in the demand for labor due to the huge increase in the amount of money created out of thin air has gone to lowering the unemployment rate rather than to raising average money wage rates.When the economy reaches full employment, wage rates will begin to rise.

[aquila48]

Lets see if this helps explain it...

1. Jobs that can be exported are exported
2. Jobs that cannot be exported, we import foreign workers, legals and illegals, to do them

I think that covers it.

[familyop]

"What's Causing the Wage Stagnation?"

In sum, contemporary political speech says that the cause is overpopulation by "useless eaters" (today, those lacking in political correctness education with credentials and not government-linked), and the sponsored writers of the speech imply that the "final solution" as the answer (sterilization, extermination, etc.). The real cause is international slavery without limits for the whole life of each slave.

[Iron Munro]

All those semi-literate college grads who weren’t picked up by the NBA and are now competing for minimum wage jobs?

[Jack Hammer]

Oh... maybe a glut of cheap labor?

Like from south of the border....

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Let’s guess.

In 2008 there were 60 million Americans of working age with no job. Now there are more than 100 million Americans of working age with no job.

In the last 6 years more than 40 million more Americans are working age without a job. That’s a lot of surplus non-working folks, some of whom would probably work if given a chance.

Definitely a drag to wages.