[karpov]

Besides the strong economy, tougher immigration enforcement may be boosting wages at the low end.

[rovenstinez]

I personally SAW this, with my own eyes. In Walmart, in Oklahoma, they had stockers that looked like street people, cashiers that looked like Meth Addicts. It was evident that Walmart had to scrap the bottom of the barrel, and not be picky about finding someone cute, with experience, young etc. It is HAPPENING.

[Candor7]

And who will lower wage workers vote for?

Joe Biden? Elizabeth Warren? Corey Booker? Bernie Sanders? Amy Klobacher?

Buahahahahhahahahahhahahahhaaa !

[EC Washington]

Watch the Bloomberg Business News Channel every 5 minutes they are ether predicting the economy will crash or reporting on how lower wage workers have not shared in the benefits of the Trump Economy.

[wastedyears]

Does that include the foolish laws foolishly raising the cost of labor in a foolish but successful attempt to secure more power and votes?

[Silentgypsy]

Can you define “poaching” in this context?

[9YearLurker]

How about The Wall? Is that helping yet?

[KeyLargo]

I cancelled my subscription that anti-Trump rag when Trump was running in 2016.

[Iscool]

Rank-and-File Workers Get Bigger Raises. Short supply of labor, minimum-wage rises and increased poaching have helped lift wages for lower-income workers

The headline says it all...That's the way it's supposed to work...

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Retirees are taking the shaft economically. On fixed incomes, with the raises and price increases around us, we are the losing same percentage other USA demographics are gaining. ...and it is ”crickets” from politicians and the news media. The USA is rocketing forward economically, but those in the launchpad just get burned and left behind.

[SauronOfMordor]

Yes, when there aren’t enough low paid illegals, employers need to pay more for citizens.

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: All of the things that Wall Street-types put into place to PREVENT this from ever happening are being successfully dismantled by Trump.

[GOPJ]

Wages for the typical worker...are rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade...

Thank YOU President Trump...

[Blood of Tyrants]

This is why RINOs want to open the borders to illegal aliens.

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe the bosses are blurting out something about giving them big raises.

[enumerated]

“A short supply of workers, increased poaching and minimum-wage increases have helped those nearer to the bottom of the pay scale.”

Of course they would take the most nonsensical statement and put it in the headline.

The credit for a strong jobs market goes to solid economic growth, not “minimum wage increases”. As for “short supply of workers” and “increased poaching” - well, that’s what happens in a strong jobs market.

And, of course a strong jobs market helps those at the bottom the most! Obviously, those at the bottom are at the margin of working or not working!

I think this piece may have been written by Captain Obvious.

[central_va]

There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only a wage shortage.