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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Why you shouldn’t expect wages to rise any time soon

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For months, the thorn in the side of otherwise sunny jobs reports has been sluggish wage growth. As unemployment falls, wages are supposed to rise. Those expectations will likely play a role in the Fed’s policy deliberations this week. But in today’s Making Sen$e column, economist John Komlos argues that there’s still too much slack in the labor market for much growth

 



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