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The decision by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to raise starter wages to $15 per hour for warehouse workers may trigger a long-awaited corporate bidding war for workers, say economic analysts.

Blue-Collar Wages Rise in Red-Hot Economy

President Donald Trump’s low-immigration policy is spiking wages for restaurant workers in South Carolina’s Hilton Head resort before the November election, according to the Washington Post.

A Super PAC funded by retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan is spending more than $10 million to help the GOP representatives who are trying to pass a cheap-labor amnesty via the discharge-petition process.

Many establishment Republicans are trying to beat populist GOP rivals by mimicking President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration arguments, says a top editor at the Atlantic magazine. 

What is a tight labor market? A tight labor market is when multi-billionaire Warren Buffet is forced to pay higher wages to recruit new employees.

Donald Trump’s deputies are planning to shrink the H-1B program, likely raising salaries for a broad swath of young Americans who have earned degrees in medicine, business, and technology, according to a document from the Department of Homeland Security.

President Donald Trump’s tight labor market is forcing CEOs to hire disabled people as they fight hard against their worst-case scenario — raising average wages for average workers to persuade them taking a higher-wage job at a nearby company.  

The Democratic Party’s allies in the AFL-CIO’s unions are pressuring companies to protect foreign migrant employees from deportation, effectively converting the pro-worker unions into wage-cutting front-groups for employers.

Wage growth for Americans stalled in 2017, creating a midterm problem for President Donald Trump as he tries to raise voters’ wages but also pass an amnesty that will flood the economy with cheap imported workers.

President Donald Trump’s new “framework” amnesty plan would provide citizenship to at least 1.8 million illegals — but would not allow any beneficial reduction in cheap-labor immigration until 2027.

One company is offering $230 for a day’s unskilled manual labor. Another company is hiring drivers for roughly $25 an hour. Line cooks are being offered $14 an hour, security people are getting $25 an hour, and 20 janitors are getting hired at $15 an hour.

Tells of millions of Americans are likely to get 4 percent wage raises this year, likely helping President Donald Trump and his pro-American immigration policy win a huge political victory in the 2018 midterm elections.

Americans’ median pay packets have been flat since 1973, even though the vastly expanded federal government has justified its own salaries and its many massive spending and policy programs as a sure-fire way to boost education, productivity, and wages.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is currently the longest-serving governor in California history, and will soon enjoy the distinction of being the highest paid governor in the country after a 3% pay raise.

TEL AVIV – Twenty-four Palestinian Authority schools funded by the UK and EU are in flagrant violation of demands that foreign aid be cut if the schools do not put an end to the promotion of violence against Israelis.

Mayor Ed Lee of San Francisco and Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles are the highest-paid and second-highest-paid mayors in America, respectively, according to a new report by the American City Business Journal.