Wage Growth Slows Across the Country (axios.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Wages in the United States are going up, but their growth is shrinking, says Glassdoor chief economist Andrew Chamberlain. Wages should be rising an average of 3%-4% given the tightness of the job market, Chamberlain says. According to official data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, wage growth was a lower 2.6% in February. Glassdoor data -- based on a survey of 100,000 salaries posted by the jobs site every month -- show even lower growth, shrinking to just 1% last month.

Comments

Re:Take your lumps for Trump

[Anonymous Coward]

... you should accept your losses with pride for the glory of the Dear Leader. Things will get better...real soon...any day now...

Are you talking about the 40% increase in the stock market since he took office, your reduced taxes, or the 5% increase in wages since he took office? We don't even have to wait for any of those things, they already happened. I will fault him for failing to deliver on his promise to land Hillary in prison.

Re:Huh, wonder why

[Archangel Michael]

As a Libertarian, I have NO problem with free and open immigration. I would accept just about anyone who wants to work in the US here. I would limit immigrants from social welfare programs for a period of 15 years or until they complete all requirements and become full citizens of the US. I would also allow fast tracking people who serve in the military or guard.

What I have a problem with is people sneaking in. But that seems to be a hard distinction for some people to make.

Re:Take your lumps for Trump

[GameboyRMH]

Time will tell, but so far, we are still on a trajectory which is much improved over the last administration's. Remember that.

Not an improved trajectory, just further along the same trajectory (at least until recently). To bring this article up to date:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/1...

The bull market is 109 months old. Trump owns 17 of them.

Including these months:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...