#wages

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#country #creation #debt #deficit #did

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#draw #men #most #things #told

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. ↗

— Henry Ford

#employer #employers #handle #money #only

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. ↗

— David Korten

#declining #economy #even #last #look

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#board #burden #cheap #closing #college

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work. ↗

— Mike Honda

#amazing #equal #equal pay #fewer #into

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. ↗

— David Korten

#even #experience #faster #housing #increased

Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#automobile industry #base #call #components #cost

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#american consumer #average #average american #becomes #cafta