Sentences with phrase «as stagnant wages»

The millenial generation really got screwed as stagnant wages and record high cost of living has taken its effect on people.

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Some analysts believe this has helped keep wage gains stagnant even as the jobless rate has fallen because employers don't have to raise wages as much to retain talent when there is less employee turnover.

For the first time ever, more than half of U.S. congressmen are worth $ 1 million or more, even as wages have remained stagnant for many Americans.

Low - skill workers are experiencing stagnant wages, family instability, high unemployment, and low labor force participation even as the economy has been growing for six years.

It comes as no surprise that against a backdrop of stagnant wages, the rising cost of living is a constant pressure for families, with nine in ten (89 %) mentioning that they have noticed an increase in the amount they are paying for both food and household bills.

«In other words, as workers, we produce almost three - times more for every hour we work, but our wages have been stagnant.

Labour is using one of its allotted opposition day debates in the Commons to force the vote, which is non-binding, for a three - month freeze in the face of rising household bills and transport fares as wages remain stagnant.

Noting that a minimum wage hike would especially impact women (a large voting bloc in Democratic presidential primaries), Mr. Biden said he was on hand today to put the proposed hike in «context,» emphasizing his final goal as vice president is to help lift stagnant wages.

As immigrant diversity increased, wages rose in pro-immigrant cities but were stagnant in anti-immigrant cities, Cooke said.

Caputo - Pearl, while campaigning for president, made no secret of his desire to get his members what they would consider a fair deal after so many years at stagnant wages, going so far as to suggest a strike.

Wages are stagnant, as credit goes stagnant, the retail stores go bankrupt, and that sends the malls into bankruptcy as well.

According to TransUnion's latest Consumer Credit Forecast, late payments on credit cards are likely to tick up in 2018 as more cardholders with stagnant wages and expanding credit card bills struggle to make payments.

As long as economic growth in Europe is stagnant, there will be plenty of people willing to work for low wages in order to have a job and perhaps travel benefits, if in fact the likes of Norwegian Air and Ryanair offer that particular perAs long as economic growth in Europe is stagnant, there will be plenty of people willing to work for low wages in order to have a job and perhaps travel benefits, if in fact the likes of Norwegian Air and Ryanair offer that particular peras economic growth in Europe is stagnant, there will be plenty of people willing to work for low wages in order to have a job and perhaps travel benefits, if in fact the likes of Norwegian Air and Ryanair offer that particular perk.

Indeed, families acted to maintain their standard of living in the face of stagnant and falling wages, earnings, and incomes during the 1970s and 1980s by having fewer children and sending both parents into the workforce, a strategy that undoubtedly has increased the stress on low - income two - parent families (Levy, 1988), and that contributed to the rise in out - of - wedlock births as a proportion of all births.

«The average American consumer is experiencing stagnant wages and is as cost - conscious as ever, which ultimately bodes well for the future of dollar store properties,» Wright says.