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7. Except Petroleum Engineers 8%avg increase

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 05:08 PM

Jan 2015

The one place that truly shows signs of a labor shortage. Employers are not competing for labor because there is no shortage. Hence stagnant wages.

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U.S. seems stuck with slow wage growth despite strong jobs data [View all] OhioChick Jan 2015 OP

Of course: all those jobs are to make more money for the 1% :( arcane1 Jan 2015 #1

All these "jobs" stories are meaningless -- unless you define "job" nichomachus Jan 2015 #2

Your Post Reveals The Truth Of The Reagan Revolution. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2015 #6

What's interesting and will have unintended consequences nichomachus Jan 2015 #8

and not only here. happening all over the world. NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #16

K & R ctsnowman Jan 2015 #4

Except Petroleum Engineers 8%avg increase One_Life_To_Give Jan 2015 #7

Of course that will go to hell nichomachus Jan 2015 #9

The way I look at it. rtracey Jan 2015 #10

Mother fucking assholes, lark Jan 2015 #12