Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: trebb

I am frankly more concerned about four years of declining real wages for the middle class. If the labor market is really so tight, why aren't wages rising as supply and demand suggests they should?


9 posted on 02/02/2006 11:51:06 AM PST by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]


To: jackbenimble
If the labor market is really so tight, why aren't wages rising as supply and demand suggests they should?

I would guess that it takes time for substantive changes to take plce - the market only really tightened over the last 1-1/2 years. Many workers were listening to the mSM and Dims talking about a "jobless recovery" and were also likely a little on the shy side of pushing for higher wages. If it isn't going up in the next 6-9 months, I'll start to be concerned, but not yet.

13 posted on 02/02/2006 12:06:54 PM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson