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Workers have had more bargaining power to get larger wages, but firms have also had power to set higher prices, and the prices are beating the wages. – Jason Furman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There was nothing in today's reports that's going to cause Federal Reserve to question whether they should keep tightening, i'd lean towards 75 basis points the next time too, until we see some kind of break on inflation, both wages and prices. – Robert Fry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They're continuing this process of extracting money from low-income people, if people have less buying power with their wages it will just get worse. – Nadine Chabrier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The causality is running from inflation to wages, not from wages to inflation. – Mark Zandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can not simply remove major wheat production, major food oil production, major fertilizer production, major oil production, major natural gas production, major production of [ semiconductor ] chips used in automobiles and think you're not going to get inflation, when it gets presented in the American news, you get this idea that if our stimulus checks had been lower, and if our wages had gone lower, that we wouldn't have this inflation. Nobody in the world accepts that as the viewpoint. – Mark Zandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the Fed meets and makes its policy decision, most people are not getting that what the Fed is saying is' you are making too much money, your wages are rising too fast, and we need to slow the demand for labor, and we need to slow wage increases,'. – William Spriggs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My vision is that one day we( won't) think it's unusual for Nora El-Khouri Spencer to be working in this industry, that women( will be) doing this work, making these good wages, and creating better lives for themselves. – Nora El-Khouri Spencer ''	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Clearly, the fact that costs are rising so much -- and for many folks, more than their wages -- is having an impact. – Scott Hoyt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The excess saving has been enough to cushion the impact of declining real wages on spending, even for lower-income households, american households are for the most part in a good financial place. – Mark Zandi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For workers, this is bad news, wages are falling very rapidly over the last year and are way below where they were two years ago. – Jason Furman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Wages, especially low wages, are not increasing by the same proportion as the increase in prices, therefore, there is a real concern on the part of workers. – Boris Plazzi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Long-term care is a sector that is largely paid for by Medicaid, and Medicaid has pretty low reimbursement rates, and so consequently, the wages in long-term care are pretty low. So there are lots of reasons people would want to leave long-term care. – Janette Dill	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Strong job growth will continue to put upward pressures on wages, resulting in higher income and more secure jobs, this strength will then act to expand consumer demand and motivate another cycle of price and wage increases. – Richard Curtin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We definitely have seen a number of domestic workers who are being offered higher than statutorily mandated wages due to the shortage of incoming domestic workers. – Manisha Wijesinghe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With not enough homes for sale, both first-time buyers and homeowners looking for a trade-up home are locked in place by surging prices and higher interest rates, the real challenge for Americans is that the high inflation is eating away at the growth in wages and salaries, on top of spiking housing and living costs. – George Ratiu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think the biggest impact of the psychology of the country has been COVID, and so, I think it's hard for people to get their arms around the fact that we have the fastest growing economy in 40 years. Wages are actually up, not down. Unemployment's the lowest it's been under, you know, it's just incredibly low, and it's around in the three-point range. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If athletes immediately unionized without a willingness to withhold their labor, they would be pushed into a bad CBA, athletes will wield the most leverage toward a fair agreement by first establishing employee status, which will lead toward free market wages. – Ramogi Huma	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
With limited supply, the issue of affordability looms even bigger, wages may have increased, but not anywhere near the pace of the home prices. – Nadia Evangelou	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The customer who does not care about the employees of a store cannot complain about the lack of jobs and the devaluation of wages.” “The store you let go bankrupt was a customer of the company you worked for.” – Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 2 years ago
I don't think' the great resignation' is the real story when you look( at the fact that) more people joined the workforce last year than any time last 25 years, but I think a lot of people did leave the workforce because they weren't earning good wages and, for whatever reason, decided to leave. – Marty Walsh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Huge grocery chains like Kroger have made billions by jacking up consumer prices. And they're using those profits to reward executives instead of raising wages so workers can make ends meet, i stand with Kroger workers in their fight for a fair contract. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Wages were not set based on market forces but based on power disparities. – Kate Bahn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Part of it is a job quality shortage, it's a bit of a puzzle why employers aren't raising wages and improving working conditions fast enough to draw people back in. They say they want to hire people — there are 11 million job openings — but they're not creating job openings that people want. – Aaron Sojourner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've worked other places. I think Starbucks better than other companies in the industry. But that's how they get away with not being the best they can be, we don't want it to be a company built on low wages and high turnover. – Jaz Brisack	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Workers have had more bargaining power to get larger wages, but firms have also had power to set higher prices, and the prices are beating the wages.

– Jason Furman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was nothing in today's reports that's going to cause Federal Reserve to question whether they should keep tightening, i'd lean towards 75 basis points the next time too, until we see some kind of break on inflation, both wages and prices.

– Robert Fry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're continuing this process of extracting money from low-income people, if people have less buying power with their wages it will just get worse.

– Nadine Chabrier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The causality is running from inflation to wages, not from wages to inflation.

– Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can not simply remove major wheat production, major food oil production, major fertilizer production, major oil production, major natural gas production, major production of [ semiconductor ] chips used in automobiles and think you're not going to get inflation, when it gets presented in the American news, you get this idea that if our stimulus checks had been lower, and if our wages had gone lower, that we wouldn't have this inflation. Nobody in the world accepts that as the viewpoint.

– Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the Fed meets and makes its policy decision, most people are not getting that what the Fed is saying is' you are making too much money, your wages are rising too fast, and we need to slow the demand for labor, and we need to slow wage increases,'.

– William Spriggs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My vision is that one day we( won't) think it's unusual for Nora El-Khouri Spencer to be working in this industry, that women( will be) doing this work, making these good wages, and creating better lives for themselves.

– Nora El-Khouri Spencer ''

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Clearly, the fact that costs are rising so much -- and for many folks, more than their wages -- is having an impact.

– Scott Hoyt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The excess saving has been enough to cushion the impact of declining real wages on spending, even for lower-income households, american households are for the most part in a good financial place.

– Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For workers, this is bad news, wages are falling very rapidly over the last year and are way below where they were two years ago.

– Jason Furman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Wages, especially low wages, are not increasing by the same proportion as the increase in prices, therefore, there is a real concern on the part of workers.

– Boris Plazzi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Long-term care is a sector that is largely paid for by Medicaid, and Medicaid has pretty low reimbursement rates, and so consequently, the wages in long-term care are pretty low. So there are lots of reasons people would want to leave long-term care.

– Janette Dill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Strong job growth will continue to put upward pressures on wages, resulting in higher income and more secure jobs, this strength will then act to expand consumer demand and motivate another cycle of price and wage increases.

– Richard Curtin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We definitely have seen a number of domestic workers who are being offered higher than statutorily mandated wages due to the shortage of incoming domestic workers.

– Manisha Wijesinghe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With not enough homes for sale, both first-time buyers and homeowners looking for a trade-up home are locked in place by surging prices and higher interest rates, the real challenge for Americans is that the high inflation is eating away at the growth in wages and salaries, on top of spiking housing and living costs.

– George Ratiu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the biggest impact of the psychology of the country has been COVID, and so, I think it's hard for people to get their arms around the fact that we have the fastest growing economy in 40 years. Wages are actually up, not down. Unemployment's the lowest it's been under, you know, it's just incredibly low, and it's around in the three-point range.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If athletes immediately unionized without a willingness to withhold their labor, they would be pushed into a bad CBA, athletes will wield the most leverage toward a fair agreement by first establishing employee status, which will lead toward free market wages.

– Ramogi Huma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With limited supply, the issue of affordability looms even bigger, wages may have increased, but not anywhere near the pace of the home prices.

– Nadia Evangelou

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The customer who does not care about the employees of a store cannot complain about the lack of jobs and the devaluation of wages.” “The store you let go bankrupt was a customer of the company you worked for.”

– Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

I don't think' the great resignation' is the real story when you look( at the fact that) more people joined the workforce last year than any time last 25 years, but I think a lot of people did leave the workforce because they weren't earning good wages and, for whatever reason, decided to leave.

– Marty Walsh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Huge grocery chains like Kroger have made billions by jacking up consumer prices. And they're using those profits to reward executives instead of raising wages so workers can make ends meet, i stand with Kroger workers in their fight for a fair contract.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Wages were not set based on market forces but based on power disparities.

– Kate Bahn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Part of it is a job quality shortage, it's a bit of a puzzle why employers aren't raising wages and improving working conditions fast enough to draw people back in. They say they want to hire people — there are 11 million job openings — but they're not creating job openings that people want.

– Aaron Sojourner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've worked other places. I think Starbucks better than other companies in the industry. But that's how they get away with not being the best they can be, we don't want it to be a company built on low wages and high turnover.

– Jaz Brisack

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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