Jared Bernstein Wage Quotations

Unless working families can give up food and gas, this combination of slow wage growth and faster inflation continues to pinch.

This report shows a race between factors boosting net worth such as home ownership and factors pushing the other way such as weak wage growth. Unless we start to see better income growth from jobs and wages, it is hard to see major gains in net worth for the typical family.

Home appreciation was offset by lousy wage growth and debt accumulation.

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 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.