Are you tired of winning yet? Me neither. Here’s some more good news.
U.S. workers are seeing the largest nominal wage increase in a decade, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as companies compete harder for employees than they did in recent years.
Wages rose 2.9 percent from September 2017 to September 2018, according to the Labor Department’s Employment Cost Index for civilian workers, a widely watched measure of pay that does not take inflation into account.
Yep! Gotta find that dark lining in the silver cloud.
That is the biggest increase — not adjusted for inflation — since the year that ended in September 2008.
Geez. You mean this is better than all of those wonderful Obungler years? Yannow it’s funny that Obumbler is running around taking credit for this while criticizing all of the policies actually responsible for it. And remember, the Dimocrats are opposed to all of those policies as well. Think about that when you vote.
Prices have risen significantly in the past year, especially for gas and rent. Adjusted for inflation, workers’ wages grew 0.6 percent over the year, making the increase the largest since 2016, according to the Labor Department.
Sluggish pay growth has been one of the biggest problems in this recovery, but employers are finally having to hike wages at a more normal level typically seen during good economic times. Unemployment is at a 49-year low and there are more job openings than unemployed Americans, which forces companies to fight for available workers.
Dear Fake News Media. This is what a real recovery looks like not that tepid growth we had during the Oblunder administration that you kept telling us was the new normal.
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As Americans head to the polls for the midterm elections next week, consumer confidence is at the highest level since 2000, largely because people think job opportunities are plentiful, the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Survey showed Tuesday.
Nope. Still not tired of winning.
Oh, c’mon, Denny. You know that what the democraps are offering is so much better than what we are seeing under DJT. What is it again, that they are offering?
Where you been, boy? They have free Skittles for all, unicorn farts to create wind power and enhance solar-sourced electricity, equal health care for all (unless you’re a Dim politician or donor and can go to the better rated and prestigious med centers) and the opportunity to pay for a chance to get your picture taken with, or at least be in the same room as Bill & Cankles and MaxiPad and Slow Joe and Liawatha and …
Oh, you’re right, never mind.
Tax enslavement, corruption and ignorance.
It’s their default package.
Tired of winning? Fawk no! Shitcan Paul Ryan and his democrat moneybag wife, we really start winning!
Stolen Valor; Obama and Blumenthal
I’m surprised there wasn’t an “unexpectedly” in there somewhere.
Whitey Trump has done more for minority prosperity.
Than the first minority President.
No wonder the Demon-rats are desperate
Speaking of winning, I am a disabled geezer living in the High Desert of
Southern California. This means (like our host) I have a lot of time on my
hands. I have been a political and information junkie for nearly 40 years.
I started hitting RCP, Ballotpedia, Five-Thirty Eight etc. several times a day
more than two months ago.
I understand that most polls (especially media polls) skew anywhere from
slightly left of center and in the case of my Filthy Seven oversample Democrat
from 18 to 58 percent. These were the pollsters who predicted that Felonia
von Pantsuit had a 98 percent chance of winning the 2016 election.
I do not just read the polls, I analyze them. There are intangible factors like
the economy, jobs growth, the Trump and Kavanaugh effects, etc. It recently
dawned on me that there was something I was missing regarding the Texas
and Arizona Senate races. In Texas, out of 21 polls Beano the Mick O’Rourke
has yet to show him ahead in any one them! While the latest poll shows
Cruz ahead by only 3 points, Gregg Abbot is ahead of his Democrat rival by the
RCP average of 17.9.
Now on to Arizona. Republicans are wringing their hands and crapping their
pants over the fact that the Green Party candidate dropped out of the race and
endorsed the socialist Barbie Doll Sinema. The Republican governor of Arizona
is riding an RCP average of 13.4 with the latest poll putting Governor Ducey at plus 18. The question is this: If the average Republican voter in either of these red states are voting by these proportions in governors races, how can the socialist Ken and Barbie Dolls expect to win these two Senate races?
Inquiring Minds want to know!