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"Strong wage growth is a good thing, but for wage growth to be sustainable, it needs to be consistent with two percent inflation."
"Wage growth for workers now outpaces the wage growth for managers."
"Home prices are running at nearly triple the pace of wage growth, simply not sustainable."
"When you have a sustained period of strong labor market conditions, lots of good things happen: you get real wage increases, and people are looking to find more people and getting them into the labor market."
"Wage growth just hit a 10-year high... and it seems like it's likely to keep accelerating."
"The only thing that's ever really led to substantive, proportional wage increases in this country is fair tax policies and unionization."
"During the first 10 years of work, people experience 70% of their overall wage growth."
"If we actually do hit a recession and we don't see real wage growth, we're going to face a credit crisis."
"Low wage growth is faster now, and unemployment is down. It's all really interesting."
"Real weekly wages for the lowest paid earners have grown more in the first three years of my administration than in the entire decade before my election."
"Over the same period of time, the last 20-25 years, real wages in the People's Republic of China have quadrupled."
"Unemployment falling, wages rising, conditions improving."
"I think in the long term we're going to see wages increase."
"By the end, the only thing you miss is exactly what you are supposed to."
"After years of stagnation wages are rising fast and the lowest paid workers are making the biggest gains."
"The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low and wages are increasing."
"Wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than a decade."
"Wages for working people are finally, after 22 years, rising again in our country."
"OVER HALF OF THE NEW JOBS ARE FULL-TIME JOBS AND WAGES ARE UP BY 4.8% WHICH IS TERRIFIC."
"Minimum wage would be $18 had it risen alongside productivity."
"I speak to people who work in supply chains in the U.S. and in China and guess what wages in China over the last 15 or 20 years they're up 500 percent or more for factored workers."
"Wage inflation is happening everywhere, everybody's getting raises."
"The greatest rate of job creation, the greatest rate of wage growth, the lowest levels of unemployment among all peoples."
"Unions are key to reversing stagnant wages and economic inequality."
"Now, for the first time in 22 years, wages are rising again."
"Wage gains need to hit 3% to stabilize inflation at 2% - a tough road ahead."
"Wages are up for the first time in many, many years."
"We're employing record numbers of people, unemployment is at record lows, and thanks to Brexit, wages are increasing faster than inflation."
"Wages are moving up at unsustainable levels."
"We started seeing our wages go up, which is the best thing you can see."
"Janet Yellen used to be at the Fed and the Fed's mandate is what uh price stability and employment they say right but what you could see over the years what they really really really fear is wages rising ever."
"Wages have gone up higher faster than inflation."
"Real wages increased 10 percent among blue-collar and middle-class workers."
"The gap between the rich and the poor becomes smaller... if the wage growth of the population is far better protected."
"I want is a tight labor market... limited supply of workers... naturally increases the wages."
"The job market is strong in the United States, backed by wage inflation which increased to 6.1 percent."
"What really matters is what happens to UK inflation, which in turn depends on what happens to UK wage growth."
"Two-thirds of all of your wage growth happens in the first ten years of your career."
"People have just been barely hanging on, you know wage growth was what 5% maybe 5 1 12% throughout 2023 just barely beating inflation."
"15 years of lost wage growth has cost the average worker 10,700 a year."
"The way that the economy heals is that wages pick up... suddenly your paycheck stretches a little bit further."
"Wages growing at record levels but people are still getting poorer."
"Over the course of the last five months, we've seen real wage growth for non-supervisory earners."
"We've seen real wage growth over that period that has been pretty healthy."
"For people that are looking to change their jobs, the wage growth that people are seeing now if they go and apply for a new job is now at 8.4%."
"The national living wage will rise again to £7.50 in April, which is over £500 more for a full-time worker than this year and £1,400 more than when the national living wage was introduced."
"Higher interest rates are more beneficial because those wages grow much faster."
"We're not only putting people back to work but also helping to lift wages and helping to make sure that we can sustain the momentum of the recovery."
"Consumer spending is still going to be the driver, but it’s going to be based on real wage gains, which is fabulous for all of us that can enjoy that."
"In one of the only places in America where the minimum wage goes up every year, small businesses and restaurants are thriving."
"For one year increase in education, we actually see an 8.2 percent increase in wages."
"Wages are rising very fast, and twice as fast for low-income workers."
"Wages and benefits around 3 percent growth, that's a full percentage point higher than it was five years ago."
"Surveys point to a gradual recovery over the course of this year as inflation falls and wages continue to grow."
"The relationship between education and wage starts out relatively flat, but once you get out of that mean level of the pen eleven or twelve years of education, then we really see that impact take off."
"Real wages have just started to improve... this matters meaningfully."
"The combination of real wage growth and improving inflation should become a source for consumer to shift back to goods."
"Wages are going up... millions of good paying jobs, that union jobs that his policies are going to create, all of those things are really incredibly important."
"The window is good, I think apart from the window from a political perspective, the wage negotiations are pointing to four percent wage growth in Japan, it's the highest in three decades."