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Now the same is expected of you. Start digging. It's not up to me to prove your claim. You made the claim. Support it.

Data extracted on: December 8, 2005 (10:18:25 AM)

Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
Series Id: CEU0500000049 Not Seasonally Adjusted Super Sector: Total private Industry: Total private NAICS Code: N/A Data Type: AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS, 1982 DOLLARS
1994	7.60	7.58	7.54	7.55	7.55	7.49	7.48	7.45	7.53	7.55	7.53	7.55	7.53
1995	7.57	7.54	7.52	7.52	7.49	7.47	7.50	7.48	7.56	7.57	7.57	7.59	7.53
1996	7.60	7.56	7.53	7.55	7.51	7.53	7.51	7.52	7.60	7.58	7.59	7.63	7.57
1997	7.64	7.63	7.64	7.64	7.64	7.64	7.62	7.65	7.72	7.74	7.79	7.81	7.68
1998	7.84	7.87	7.87	7.87	7.86	7.83	7.82	7.87	7.94	7.94	7.97	7.97	7.89
1999	8.01	8.00	8.00	7.97	7.99	7.96	7.95	7.96	8.01	8.01	8.02	8.04	8.00
2000	8.09	8.04	7.98	8.04	8.00	7.96	7.98	7.99	8.04	8.07	8.07	8.11	8.03
2001	8.09	8.08	8.09	8.09	8.03	8.01	8.07	8.07	8.14	8.16	8.21	8.29	8.11
2002	8.29	8.25	8.21	8.18	8.17	8.20	8.18	8.18	8.26	8.26	8.27	8.35	8.24
2003	8.32	8.30	8.23	8.23	8.25	8.26	8.25	8.23	8.26	8.27	8.34	8.34	8.27
2004	8.33	8.31	8.23	8.23	8.20	8.14	8.17	8.20	8.25	8.22	8.22	8.27	8.23


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Okay, your turn. I'm sure your government source if better than mine. LOL!!

You're absolutely right. Now that you've backed up your graph with respectable data I can now see that wages have been increasing and that I was totally wrong.

I am forever in your debt.

229 posted on 12/07/2005 6:51:16 PM EST by em2vn (I was so wrong.)

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gotcha! ;-)

I have two questions. Weren't talking about 1973 dollars and what is the net address for the report you took your information from?