[expat_panama]

tx!!  One quote raised my eyebrow: "Wage growth will hurt corporate earnings and reduce the share of corporate profit".  My thinking being market forces allow wage to grow only if labor is in short supply.  Considering we've still got about 17 million not employed or not in the labor force, that's a huge amount of room to grow.

[Chgogal]

Yes, but this country is short high skilled labor. I said what you said to a very high skilled contracting company. They can't find and then keep good to excellent craftsmen/labor. I'm beginning to believe him.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201404/cait-murphy/skills-gap-in-the-labor-force.html

I went to Lane Tech, this country used to respect a high skilled “blue” collar labor force. Not anymore and with the retiring baby boom generation we are going to be in a world of hurt. My father was a college educated tool and die maker from the Greatest Generation. They are a dying breed.