Sentences with phrase «faster than wages»

What's more, in 60 % of markets, including Chicago and Los Angeles, rents are rising faster than wages.

Rental costs are climbing faster than wages across many parts of the country — a problem that has only worsened in the past year, according to a growing number of housing surveys.

Mostly because it has to appreciate faster than wages to make it a good investment and 50 years of that has brought us to where we are today, where houses cost as 10 times annual wages instead of 3.

But as rents rise faster than wages in many part of the country, many households already struggle to keep up.

Prices are rising faster than wages, and have been for many years.

With inflation growing faster than wages, it's become harder and harder to balance student loans against the rest of your financial responsibilities.

«Cost of meeting basic needs rising faster than wages in Washington State.»

«Cost of meeting basic needs rising faster than wages in Washington state.»

All this comes at a time when a flatlining economy has seen prices rise faster than wages and unemployment rise again this month.

We might have a nascent recovery, but for most people, life keeps getting tougher as prices continue to rise much faster than wages.

They (actually — interest declared — we) enjoy free prescriptions, winter fuel allowance, free bus travel and a state pension that has been rising faster than wages.

Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures show the consumer price index (CPI) and retail price index (RPI) fell from March to April this year, but TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said prices had nevertheless risen three times faster than wages.

«With train fares set to rise four times faster than wages in the next year, ministers should think again and give commuters a break.»

Printing more money also makes inflation go up faster than the economy can react, prices go up faster than wages of anyone left with a job so soon no one can afford anything and the country is on the brink of chaos.

Once Osborne was finished pretending current salaries are fair, he made a hugely significant pledge: that benefits should not rise faster than wages.

0845 - HMRC - George Osborne: «There's nothing fair abt trapping people on welfare or benefits going up faster than wages.»

Prices rising faster than wages for 38 out of the 39 months since David Cameron entered Downing Street.

And now even as growth finally returns, with prices still rising faster than wages, with business investment still weak, with unemployment still rising in half the country, with bank lending to business still falling, we can't be satisfied.

«While millionaires have been given a huge tax cut, for everyone else life is getting harder with prices still rising much faster than wages.»

Millions of working people, redundant nurses desperately looking for work, disabled people in homes that Ministers have decided contain a «spare room» — all hit just at the time when prices are rising faster than wages and unemployment is rising.

Although the UK's inflation rate unexpectedly slowed to 2.6 % in June, it's still rising faster than wages, prompting many consumers to tighten their purse strings even further.

Saving up for a down payment is tougher than ever as home prices rise faster than wages.

Glass half full: Household debt continues to grow much faster than wages.

Many salaried workers see the assets of the rich, such as housing and art, rising in value far faster than wages.

«The problem has been getting worse in many places, including New York City, because housing prices are rising faster than wages.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers have been under pressure for years to rein in executive compensation, which has grown faster than both the stock market and the wages of the top 1 % in the last 40 years.

It costs less to make them here than at our plant in China, because of the way their wages are going up so fast.

The reason why GDI started trending above GDP is the same reason wages have been growing faster than productivity: the surge of commodity prices, and of oil prices in particular, since 2002.

«Households are being squeezed from both directions, with inflation rising faster than expected and wages rising more slowly.

And, for fast - food companies and franchisees, the question of increasing employees» wages is more complex than tacking on a few extra dollars to everyone's salaries.

So it might not be the Great Depression, but short - term prospects dimmed considerably over the weekend — so much so that Kit Juckes, a currency strategist at Société Générale, lamented the possibility that data set for release this week could show that U.S. wages finally are growing faster than inflation.

Wages are rising faster than at any time since the global financial crisis.

In California, wages rose faster in 2016 and 2017 than in the nation as a whole, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I don't understand your scenario of US wages rising faster than prices — please begin with the basics: (1) GDP = Savings + Investment + Consumption and (2) Current Account Balance = Domestic Savings — Domestic Investment.

All 2.9 — 2 =.9 PNS 2.4 — 2 =.4 WC 3.9 — 2 = 1.9 Thus wages grew 4.75 times faster for white collar workers than production non-supervisory.

Fast - food wages began rising in 2014, and have increased faster than overall wages since.

Chair Yellen has consistently maintained that as long as nominal wages grow no faster than the Fed's inflation target of 2 percent plus productivity growth, which is running at (a truly yucky) 1 percent these days, wages can grow 3 percent without generating inflationary pressures.

It usually plays out like this: The economy starts to grow faster than expected, wages and inflation shoot up, and then the Fed reacts by aggressively raising interest rates.

Higher wages, inflation fears and the prospect of faster than expected rate hikes are posing challenges market players haven't seen for years.

We expect salaries, wages and benefit expense to grow at a faster rate than our capacity as market and tenure - related adjustments continue.

-LRB-...) Eurostat said wages were 2.0 % higher in the three months through June than a year earlier, the fastest rise since the first quarter of 2015 and up from 1.3 % in the previous three - month period.

This marks four consecutive quarters in which wages have grown faster than productivity.

During the past quarter - century, politically facilitated globalization allowed profits to grow much faster than per capita GDP, wages, and productivity, propelling capital's share of income to an unsustainable extreme.

Another report earlier this week showed that the Fed's preferred measure of inflation accelerated to its highest in more than a year in March, while data last week showed that wages grew at their fastest pace in in eleven years in the first quarter.

Average wages have increased and are rising faster than consumer prices, indicating new jobs aren't paying less on average.

Wages continue to increase just slightly faster than inflation, which also suggests there is slack in the job market.

Wages have not grown as fast as prices, and the majority of UK homeowners have variable rate mortgages, rather than fixed - rate.

In fact, house values have risen faster than job wages, and that has created affordability problems for buyers in some parts of the country.

Because of the two different minimum wages, for fast food workers and the rest of workers, an employee at McDonald's or Burger King could make $ 100 more a week than a home health care worker or grocery store cashier.

GDP per hour grows faster than median wages.