The economy's doing fine, except if you figure in working families. We're posting great numbers in aggregate demand, yet the lousiest on record for wage growth. |
The full employment situation reinforces itself, |
The government should be actively enforcing the high road. |
The inflation bar is very high right now, ... doesn't get you over. |
The job market is slowly tightening. We are wringing out the slack. But we're only six months into a process that could take a year and a half. |
The jobless recovery remains with us, and the job machine is stuck in neutral at this point. |
The main reason for that appears to be the fact that the job market has yet to generate the kind of increases in living standards you'd expect at this point. |
The private sector's just not generating enough jobs here, and I would love to see some of the policy-makers in [Washington] wake up and take notice. |
The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also that they're facing lower wages. If wages were keeping pace with inflation, the pinch wouldn't be as hard. |
The weakness in the labor market is clearly reducing the growth of earnings, meaning consumers, most of who depend on their paychecks, are likely to remain insecure about where the economy is headed, ... This in turn has the potential to constrain consumption growth, limiting the boost that the economy will get from the recent tax cut, and delaying the arrival of a truly self-sustaining recovery. |
The weakness in the labor market is clearly reducing the growth of earnings, meaning consumers, most of who depend on their paychecks, are likely to remain insecure about where the economy is headed. This in turn has the potential to constrain consumption growth, limiting the boost that the economy will get from the recent tax cut, and delaying the arrival of a truly self-sustaining recovery. |
There is no reason to believe...that Congress has authorized the Department of Labor to dramatically reduce coverage...taking overtime protection away from millions of workers. Yet that is exactly what the Department of Labor has proposed. |
There may be some signs that a fledgling recovery is beginning to take hold in the labor market, but we have had these kinds of moves [before], so we don't want to make too much out of it. |
There were close to 200,000 jobs cut in the past couple of months, making them the worst two months of last year. The jobless recovery is not only lingering, it's deepening. |
These are workers who have the weakest bargaining leverage and are most likely to be exploited, particularly in a period where you have a weak labor demand and a large labor supply. |