The Daily Shot, a Wall Street Journal blog, has some excellent charts explaining the uptick in wage growth from Friday’s employment report.. Here is one of them:
Here is the link, there is much more: https://blogs.wsj.com/dailyshot/2017/10/09/the-daily-shot-overtime-pay-at-electric-utilities-skewed-us-wage-growth-data/
Of course, getting higher wages for delivering ice or other scarce products is called “gouging”…
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