Quotes: Wages

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven’t risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker’s wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA’s true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can’t expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

Keep up hope for a better economy, more jobs, better wages, affordable healthcare and all the issues we have brought into focus.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

The issue isn’t just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.