Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels

[Wry Catcher]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

Did he cut the salary of members of Congress, when he cut the COLA for other Federal Employees?

 

[Correll]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

The hell we want to keep policies the same, you idiot. Read something.

YOu complain about the polices that caused wage stagnation, well, some of them,


and the side with the status quo politicians and forces that want to maintain them, while fighting against those that want to change them BACK.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Thank you Obama.

 

[Weatherman2020]

What we need is more government.

 

[Correll]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

1. Reducing immigration/deporting illegals, to reduce labor supply.

2. Trade policy moving jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, back to the US, to increase demand.

3. Tax cuts, regulation cuts to spur economy, and increase demand.



Increase demand, reduce supply, prices rise.


The price for labor, is wages.

 

[Papageorgio]

The source of the information is an ad that leads you to buy stocks. How trustworthy are you on whether their information is accurate?

Is this one of those “ it’s on the internet so it is true” articles?

 

[Papageorgio]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

I don’t remember wages skyrocketing under Democrats. They’ve been in office quite a bit since 1974. If the Republicans are a “0” on a scale from 1-10 in terms of income of average Americans, the Democrats may be charitably considered a “3” or “4”.

I’m not a republican. I’m not a democrat. I am a liberal who applauds Democratic Party efforts to raise the minimum wage because it has a force-multiplier effect. For every small employer who decides to hang it up rather than pay the elevated wages; the market solves the problem in the macroeconomic model. Such is capitalism; if you don’t want to sell me a widget; someone else will…use that income to pay their employee…expand their enterprise…etc.

Other than the minimum wage advocacy, I do not see where Democrats have anything to say to Republicans about raising the wages of workers. The way it should work is that you encourage continuous compulsory training so that today’s wage earners can become tomorrow’s salaried professionals. But really, we’ve had GSLs, Pell Grants, the GI Bill, etc… for decades. While we could lower the requirements to this and allow improvement on a micro scale (such as a grant to workers so they can just learn a language or learn computers without enrolling in 16 semester hours), on the whole, the idea that the American worker is eager to get more and more training is sadly just a myth.

Anyway, I don’t think you can lay this at the feet of the Republicans. Could they do more? Sure. Could the Democrats? Sure. Could Corporate America? Sure. This is one reason I find the potential candidacy of Howard Schultz so intriguing. He has been (mostly) a good corporate citizen; the type of employer whose values we’d like to see copied. Compare that to the blob in office now whose policy seemed to be grab as much pussy as possible.

Wages skyrocketed under Bill Clinton
5-6 percent or more per year

Now, wages have been stagnant since the Great Bush Recession of 2008

What year were they 6% or more?

 

[BlueGin]

'real wages' in the US peaked in 1979, the year I graduated high school

a good thing don't last forever & those that actually believe that some dumb ass politician can turn back time are pretty ignorant

More ignorant than someone who can't use capital letters or periods at the end of sentances? You must be related to Jillian.

 

[BlueGin]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

So...you preferred it when Obama had us under 1974 levels then?

 

[Brain357]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

1. Reducing immigration/deporting illegals, to reduce labor supply.

2. Trade policy moving jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, back to the US, to increase demand.

3. Tax cuts, regulation cuts to spur economy, and increase demand.



Increase demand, reduce supply, prices rise.


The price for labor, is wages.

Unemployment is really low, why are wages not increasing?

 

[hadit]

Where was Pew during the Obama years when nobody got a raise and Black unemployment was around double digits? Should we rely on somebody named Daniel Kline to interpret the booming economy? Only when lefties never have a nice day.

After the worst economic crash in world history caused by BushCo, Republicans, and Corporate America?

I didn't know they caused the great depression before they were born. How'd they do that?

 

[hadit]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Why do you vote for democrats if they are so ineffective? Seems kind of stupid, doesn't it?

Because Republicans are so effective at raping American Workers wages.

Yet you're getting nothing for your vote. Don't you think it's time you stop doing the same thing expecting a different result?

And it's comical that you excuse democrats for doing the same things you're complaining Republicans do. They really have you completely snowed.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

1. Reducing immigration/deporting illegals, to reduce labor supply.

2. Trade policy moving jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, back to the US, to increase demand.

3. Tax cuts, regulation cuts to spur economy, and increase demand.



Increase demand, reduce supply, prices rise.


The price for labor, is wages.

Unemployment is really low, why are wages not increasing?

Wages increase based on merit not statistics. In competitive industries wages are negotiated.

 

[Brain357]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

1. Reducing immigration/deporting illegals, to reduce labor supply.

2. Trade policy moving jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, back to the US, to increase demand.

3. Tax cuts, regulation cuts to spur economy, and increase demand.



Increase demand, reduce supply, prices rise.


The price for labor, is wages.

Unemployment is really low, why are wages not increasing?

Wages increase based on merit not statistics. In competitive industries wages are negotiated.

And? Wages are stagnant and that is bad. Typically with low unemployment wages increase, that isn't happening now. Something is broke.

 

[McRocket]

Where was Pew during the Obama years when nobody got a raise and Black unemployment was around double digits? Should we rely on somebody named Daniel Kline to interpret the booming economy? Only when lefties never have a nice day.

After the worst economic crash in world history caused by BushCo, Republicans, and Corporate America?

I didn't know they caused the great depression before they were born. How'd they do that?

True...the Great Depression was primarily caused by another Republican, Herbert Hoover.

And before you call me a Dem...I did not like the way FDR handled the Great Depression either.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Why do you vote for democrats if they are so ineffective? Seems kind of stupid, doesn't it?

Because Republicans are so effective at raping American Workers wages.

Yet you're getting nothing for your vote. Don't you think it's time you stop doing the same thing expecting a different result?

And it's comical that you excuse democrats for doing the same things you're complaining Republicans do. They really have you completely snowed.

Aw yes, another BIG LIE, the food which sustains the biddable who are on lifetime diet from sagacious thinking.

D's and R's are very different, especially in terms of budgets. The D's may tax and spend, but the R's don't tax and spend.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Why do you vote for democrats if they are so ineffective? Seems kind of stupid, doesn't it?

Because Republicans are so effective at raping American Workers wages.

Yet you're getting nothing for your vote. Don't you think it's time you stop doing the same thing expecting a different result?

And it's comical that you excuse democrats for doing the same things you're complaining Republicans do. They really have you completely snowed.

Aw yes, another BIG LIE, the food which sustains the biddable who are on lifetime diet from sagacious thinking.

D's and R's are very different, especially in terms of budgets. The D's may tax and spend, but the R's don't tax and spend.

Hahahaha

Obama extended Bush's tax cuts and DOUBLED the debt lol

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

1. Reducing immigration/deporting illegals, to reduce labor supply.

2. Trade policy moving jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, back to the US, to increase demand.

3. Tax cuts, regulation cuts to spur economy, and increase demand.



Increase demand, reduce supply, prices rise.


The price for labor, is wages.

Unemployment is really low, why are wages not increasing?

Wages increase based on merit not statistics. In competitive industries wages are negotiated.

And? Wages are stagnant and that is bad. Typically with low unemployment wages increase, that isn't happening now. Something is broke.

If you feel you are underpaid demand a wage or get a different job.

I fail to see the problem beyond the fact that you seem to want something for nothing.

 

[Correll]

Thanks to Corporate America and Republicans....

Real U.S. Wages Are Essentially Back at 1974 Levels, Pew Reports

Wages have been stagnant for 40 years. Trump is the one trying to change the factors that led to that.


You people are the ones that want to keep trade and immigration policy the same.


What part of that makes sense to you?

How is Trump trying to change the wage discrepancy?

Keep in mind, it is not what Trump says, it is what he does and doesn't do.

1. Reducing immigration/deporting illegals, to reduce labor supply.

2. Trade policy moving jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, back to the US, to increase demand.

3. Tax cuts, regulation cuts to spur economy, and increase demand.



Increase demand, reduce supply, prices rise.


The price for labor, is wages.

Unemployment is really low, why are wages not increasing?

I'm not sure. I have some theories, but I've seen no data to provide solid answers as of yet.