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In America, workers have the constitutional right to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining for higher wages and better working conditions, unfortunately Starbucks, under Mr. Schultz’s leadership, has done everything possible to prevent that from happening. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all. – Max Arias	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As LAUSD parents and workers, SEIU Local 99 members know a strike will be a sacrifice but the school district has pushed workers to take this action, families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all. – Max Arias	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all, too many workers have been subjected to harassment simply for demanding change. Enough is Enough! – Max Arias	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In order to put this episode of high inflation behind us, further policy tightening, maintained for a longer time, will likely be necessary, absent a substantial pickup in the share of working-age adults looking to be employed or a large change in immigration flows, labor force participation will continue to decline and worker shortages will persist, pushing up wages and ultimately prices, at least in the near and medium term. – San Francisco	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our fastest-growing client group are working people on low wages who cannot make ends meet. – Su Parrish	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had a labor market with 3.5% unemployment in 2018 and ’19, and we had inflation just barely getting to 2%, and wages moving up for most of the people at the lower end of the spectrum, we all want to get back to that place. – Federal Reserve	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As inflation is coming down, take-home pay for workers is going up, workers' wages are higher now than they were seven months ago, adjusted for inflation.Wages for lower-income and middle-income workers have gone up even more. It all adds up to a real break for consumers, real breathing room for families, and more proof that my economic plan is working. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are not out here for wages. We are out here because we want the patients’ safety, when I’m in ICU, I’m supposed to have two patients. I have three to four. I have two or three nurses working 24 hours. – Lorena Vivas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the things that we’ve seen is that wage growth has been fairly strong and there’s the fear that wage growth is going to ultimately drive inflation higher, so the Federal Reserve wants to raise interest rates to try to curb the demand for workers and hopefully bring down wages, which in fact will then ultimately bring down inflation. – John Leer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The persistent mismatch between labor supply and demand continues to put upward pressure on wages. – Lauren Goodwin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The story is different because wages have been increasing at the low-end, much faster than inflation and much faster than in middle- or high-wage jobs, and that means that many workers, even in the $7.25 states, are already getting paid above the minimum wage. – Michael Reich	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even though minimum wages might go up by 7%, in many states and cities, labor costs aren’t going to go up anywhere as much as they have in the past, because they already have gone up, that also means that prices aren’t going to go up at [places like] restaurants. – Michael Reich	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It worked, funds received through each round of the PSP were only used for qualifying employee salaries, wages, and benefits. – Gary Kelly	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The workers received a 24 percent increase in their wages. That sounds like a lot of money, they have not received a pay increase in the last 3 years. And if you average it out, that pay increase is less than inflation today. – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
One of my top priorities will always be to raise the per capita wages of Mississippians, this historic economic development deal does exactly that and will have a remarkable impact on communities across Mississippi. – Tate Reeves	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re telling the American people what we’re going to do, we’re going to combat this Biden inflation. We’re going to bring back the actual wages that people have and not pay these taxes on inflation, because that’s what it is. – Markwayne Mullin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Air travel has returned.... I think this is the right time [ for new contracts ], workers are going to demand better wages and better working conditions. But it's hard to say on timing. – Greg Regan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are not on strike for our wages. We're fighting for the ability to have some say over our profession and the work life balance. – Mary Turner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're not going to sit here and argue about [ wages ] or health care. We're beyond that. – Jeremy Ferguson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Cryptocurrencies don't solve living wages, they don't address unemployment, black folks are so eager and so thirsty for financial inclusion and economic opportunity that by default we are more ripe for being exploited. – Samson Williams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If they're operating on tight margins, maybe they can't afford to raise wages to lure more workers. – Harry Holzer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's highly correlated to wage growth. That's not to say higher wages are a bad thing, when people have more money, they can buy more things. But if there's not actually more things, prices go up. Ultimately, that does translate into some pressure for prices on everything else. – Rob Haworth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The lack of truckers reflects [ that ] we need more workers than we actually have, and that's being resolved through higher wages. – Rob Haworth	Found on CNN 1 year ago

In America, workers have the constitutional right to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining for higher wages and better working conditions, unfortunately Starbucks, under Mr. Schultz’s leadership, has done everything possible to prevent that from happening.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all.

– Max Arias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As LAUSD parents and workers, SEIU Local 99 members know a strike will be a sacrifice but the school district has pushed workers to take this action, families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all.

– Max Arias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all, too many workers have been subjected to harassment simply for demanding change. Enough is Enough!

– Max Arias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to put this episode of high inflation behind us, further policy tightening, maintained for a longer time, will likely be necessary, absent a substantial pickup in the share of working-age adults looking to be employed or a large change in immigration flows, labor force participation will continue to decline and worker shortages will persist, pushing up wages and ultimately prices, at least in the near and medium term.

– San Francisco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our fastest-growing client group are working people on low wages who cannot make ends meet.

– Su Parrish

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had a labor market with 3.5% unemployment in 2018 and ’19, and we had inflation just barely getting to 2%, and wages moving up for most of the people at the lower end of the spectrum, we all want to get back to that place.

– Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As inflation is coming down, take-home pay for workers is going up, workers' wages are higher now than they were seven months ago, adjusted for inflation.Wages for lower-income and middle-income workers have gone up even more. It all adds up to a real break for consumers, real breathing room for families, and more proof that my economic plan is working.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are not out here for wages. We are out here because we want the patients’ safety, when I’m in ICU, I’m supposed to have two patients. I have three to four. I have two or three nurses working 24 hours.

– Lorena Vivas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that we’ve seen is that wage growth has been fairly strong and there’s the fear that wage growth is going to ultimately drive inflation higher, so the Federal Reserve wants to raise interest rates to try to curb the demand for workers and hopefully bring down wages, which in fact will then ultimately bring down inflation.

– John Leer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The persistent mismatch between labor supply and demand continues to put upward pressure on wages.

– Lauren Goodwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The story is different because wages have been increasing at the low-end, much faster than inflation and much faster than in middle- or high-wage jobs, and that means that many workers, even in the $7.25 states, are already getting paid above the minimum wage.

– Michael Reich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even though minimum wages might go up by 7%, in many states and cities, labor costs aren’t going to go up anywhere as much as they have in the past, because they already have gone up, that also means that prices aren’t going to go up at [places like] restaurants.

– Michael Reich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It worked, funds received through each round of the PSP were only used for qualifying employee salaries, wages, and benefits.

– Gary Kelly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The workers received a 24 percent increase in their wages. That sounds like a lot of money, they have not received a pay increase in the last 3 years. And if you average it out, that pay increase is less than inflation today.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One of my top priorities will always be to raise the per capita wages of Mississippians, this historic economic development deal does exactly that and will have a remarkable impact on communities across Mississippi.

– Tate Reeves

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re telling the American people what we’re going to do, we’re going to combat this Biden inflation. We’re going to bring back the actual wages that people have and not pay these taxes on inflation, because that’s what it is.

– Markwayne Mullin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Air travel has returned.... I think this is the right time [ for new contracts ], workers are going to demand better wages and better working conditions. But it's hard to say on timing.

– Greg Regan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are not on strike for our wages. We're fighting for the ability to have some say over our profession and the work life balance.

– Mary Turner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're not going to sit here and argue about [ wages ] or health care. We're beyond that.

– Jeremy Ferguson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cryptocurrencies don't solve living wages, they don't address unemployment, black folks are so eager and so thirsty for financial inclusion and economic opportunity that by default we are more ripe for being exploited.

– Samson Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they're operating on tight margins, maybe they can't afford to raise wages to lure more workers.

– Harry Holzer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's highly correlated to wage growth. That's not to say higher wages are a bad thing, when people have more money, they can buy more things. But if there's not actually more things, prices go up. Ultimately, that does translate into some pressure for prices on everything else.

– Rob Haworth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The lack of truckers reflects [ that ] we need more workers than we actually have, and that's being resolved through higher wages.

– Rob Haworth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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