Long a Laggard, Wages Start to Outpace Prices
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The buying power of U.S workers is now rising at the fastest rate since the economic boom of the late 1990s.
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A demand for workers outpaced big losses from the unwinding of the housing boom and a slowing economy.
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The nation's lowest-paid workers will soon find extra money in their pockets as the minimum wage rises 70 cents to $5.85 an hour today, the first increase in a decade.
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The double whammy of a worsening housing slump and a credit crunch is punching the economy in its gut. That's likely to mean a period of slower activity in the months ahead.
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Earnings are evidence that rising commodities aren't always simple.
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WASHINGTON -- The efficiency of workers rose at a modest pace in the final three months of last year, far below the gain originally estimated, while worker wages and benefits soared.
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AMERICA&#39;S payrolls picked up last month, with the economy adding 144,000 jobs, slightly less than economists were forecasting and highlighting the slow and uneven recovery in the labour market that jobseekers have braved.
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Those who move from the mainland find that everything costs more and salaries are generally lower.
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Revised numbers show a jump in wages and lower productivity, two potentially troubling signs as the Fed considers interest rates.
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Growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated unexpectedly in November and third-quarter labor costs grew more slowly than forecast, suggesting the economy may be weathering a manufacturing slowdown with wage-driven inflation coming under control.
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As the stock market edges up and the  economy improves, day traders are tiptoeing back into a  much-maligned profession that was nearly wiped out a few years  ago.
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As travel season begins, the payment of back wages is an economic bellwether.
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America's factories saw orders for costly manufactured goods post the biggest gain in four months, a sign that the economy is emerging from an early summer funk.
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WASHINGTON -- The productivity of American workers slowed sharply in the first three months of this year but wage pressures eased as well, providing evidence that inflation is being restrained.
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AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
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Not everyone wants the market to keep going up.
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