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She says indigenous farmworkers, driven north by economic hardship, are more likely than Spanish-speakers to be denied wages or forced into substandard housing.
3 Through its influence on real wages, labor productivity is the fundamental determinant of a nation's standard of living.
Finally, Krugman's numbers on Asian wages catching up to U.S. wages ignore one big factor contributing to that narrowing: a decline in U.S. wages.
This shortage, said Secretary of Education Richard Riley, "translates into billions of dollars in unearned wages and unrealized corporate earnings."
32 According to the Social Security Administration, Social Security benefits currently replace about 39 percent of pre-retirement income for a worker with average wages ($32,105 in 2000).