Tag: wages

Hint: If we were desperately short of workers, wages would be rising.

American workers employed at small businesses across the United States are benefitting strongly with increased wages thanks to President Trump clamping down on immigration. 

But with few signs of acceleration, there’s no need to fear inflation.

Inflation-adjusted wages were flat for the second month in a row.

The tight labor-market in Iowa is delivering higher wages, better working conditions and more training programs to employees in Iowa, where unemployment has dropped to roughly 4 percent, according to a report in Atlantic magazine.

President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy is pressuring companies to raise wages for interns, create job-training programs, and open up opportunities for middle-ranking students, says a report by the Wall Street Journal. 

Over the past year, America’s private sector has added an average of 190,000 new jobs. That blistering pace of hiring is nearly double the rate of growth of the workforce, pushing unemployment down and then down some more.

Blue-Collar Wages Rise in Red-Hot Economy

Nearly half of Americans now say that illegal immigration to the United States reduces wages of the working and middle class, a new poll finds.

Workers in two American industries that many economists had consigned to the dustbin of history saw some of the biggest gains in wages, bonuses, and benefits in the start of 2018.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and his aides are claiming that President Donald Trump supports his unpublished draft amnesty plan.

The GOP’s deficit in the generic ballot score has spiked from just 3.2 points to 7.6 points in the last week as business donors and House Speaker Paul Ryan push for a wage-cutting amnesty.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi is hammering the GOP for slow growth in wages just as House Speaker Paul Ryan prepares an amnesty that will help stall the upwards movement of blue-collar wages. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he hopes to quickly write up an amnesty bill and get it passed through the House.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is praising the wage growth in President Donald Trump’s economy, marking a huge shift from his prior ‘economic-growth-first’ rhetoric to justify cheap-labor immigration. 

The nation’s 800,000 warehouse workers have won a 9.4 percent pay increase amid President Donald Trump’s pro-American migration policy, forcing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to raise wages for his many warehouse employees.

A large group of NeverTrump investors and cheap-labor CEO donors are promising to go on strike until House Speaker Paul Ryan schedules passage of a cheap-labor amnesty for June 25. 

Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi is hitting President Donald Trump in a soft spot — the slow growth of Americans’ wages in a go-go economy. 

Business donors’ demands for mass immigration have cost the GOP five states in presidential elections and 11 House seats in congressional elections, according to a new study by pro-immigration economists.  

One-third of small businesses are raising wages in the tight economy, setting a record level of pay increases, says a new report by the National Federation of Independent Business. 

Almost half of hourly-wage employers will “offer the maximum hourly wage they feel their business can afford” this summer, up from just one-third of employers in 2017, says a survey of 1,000 employers by Snag, a job-advertising firm.

The GOP is close to drafting an immigration bill that “deals with the DACA situation,” GOP Majority Leader Rep. Kevin Mcarthy told Fox News. 

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 “thriving economy” does not include salary or wages increases for Americans or their adult children, according to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s enthusiastic description on May 17.

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.

As many of four million Brits cannot get a job or the work they would like because they are forced to compete with a “virtually unlimited pool” of migrant workers from the European Union (EU), a report has said.

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. 

President Donald Trump will meet with GOP leaders this afternoon to talk about immigration, amid growing pressure from business leaders to approve a big amnesty that will block wage increases for his own 2018 voters.

There were 6.6 million job openings in the U.S. in March, which means America has enough job openings to give every unemployed person in the country a job, according to data from the Labor Department Tuesday.

The latest quarterly economic survey by California’s Next 10 and Beacon Economics found that Los Angeles is shrinking while the Bay Area is adding residents.

Twenty Democratic Senators are calling for fewer border agents, fewer deportations, and fewer detention beds in the 2019 budget, echoing their home-state demands for a continued inflow of cheap illegal-immigrant labor. 

“We want wages to go up,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a conference in Los Angeles Monday.

Job Creators Network, one of the nation’s largest pro-jobs grassroots organizations, announced on Sunday that its scheduled rally near Chicago, Illinois, was postponed after “opposition” activists ambushed the event.

Compensation for American workers rose at the fastest annual pace since the third quarter of 2008, the Department of Labor said Friday.

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.