With more jobs, workers are finally getting a raise

Aug 5, 2016
Employers are having to pay more to attract and keep the workers they need.
The factory floor at Quadrant, a high end plastic processor in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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After seven years, the minimum wage is worth a lot less

Jul 25, 2016
Depending on how to measure, the minimum wage should be closer to $12, or even $19.
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez offers a young girl a milkshake he made as he toured a Shake Shack restaurant in Washington in 2014 to promote raising the federal minimum wage.
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Weekly Wrap: The future of the U.S. economy

Nov 13, 2015
Marketplace recaps the week's business and economics news.

The leap not taken: Wage growth

Jan 23, 2015
Why haven't wage growth caught up to job growth?

Jobs are rebounding. Why are wages stagnant?

Jan 9, 2015
More jobs should demand for and higher wages, but that isn't happening.

Health care cost increases slow, but so have wages

Jan 8, 2015
A bigger share of Americans' household budgets goes to health care costs.

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How the U.S. might get to wage growth

Nov 7, 2014
There's plenty of job growth. Wage growth? Not so much.