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Growth, ten years of increased jobs, and that s great that the african-american unemployment rate is lower, but dignity of work means that workers wages go up too. we see corporate profits go up, skyrocketing executive compensation, productivity going up, but wages aflat and women ad people of color have more challenges with flat wages. that s the real issue, not somebody having two or three jobs that pay 11 or $12 an hour, white or black, the people not making wages that can keep up with inflation and pay for their prescription drugs, and pay for their kids school and all the other things we need. prescription drugs obviously he is going to call for those prices to come down, which is obviously something you agree with. in fact, senator when i look at the past, what i think is very interesting is you had a lot of the same things to say long before president trump actually said them. even put america first echoes ....
Workers wages. they are rising slowly. so for most people, they spend what they need to spend. but if the prices move higher and people don t get inflation-rated came withes, we could see a cooling off. there s this extension on tariffs on chinese good that is a piece of the puzzle. it s a moving part as far as we know. but if more tariffs are put on chinese goods, americans will pay more. right now the american consumer is at ease. we have the read on american consumer confidence for the month of august in 18-year highs. so so far so good. it s really that wage inflation that is rising more slowly than the price of goods and services. so far it looks good, but just something that is a balancing act that economists are watching. neil: jerome powell is watching, for whom the president had kind words in his bloomberg interview. but it s a catch 22 relationship, right? ....
james: missouri s senate has approved a right to work bill. the measure goes to the statehouse which passed an almost identical the last weekend. republican governor eric reitan says he will sign it. supporters say it will be good for business. opponents say it will weaken unions on/workers wages. the dallas had more records today, gaining 32 for another all-time high close. the s&p 500 lost 2. nasdaq was down 1 paid one of the big changes president trump wants to make has to do with illegal immigrants who have most definitely worn out their welcome. these are criminals back out on our streets. william la jeunesse reports from los angeles. the difficulty is getting them back on their home country s streets. do we have deportable aliens who been released on u.s. streets because their home ....
james: missouri s senate has approved a right to work bill. the measure goes to the statehouse which passed an almost identical the last weekend. republican governor eric reitan says he will sign it. supporters say it will be good for business. opponents say it will weaken unions on/workers wages. the dallas had more records today, gaining 32 for another all-time high close. the s&p 500 lost 2. nasdaq was down 1 paid one of the big changes president trump wants to make has to do with illegal immigrants who have most definitely worn out their welcome. these are criminals back out on our streets. william la jeunesse reports from los angeles. the difficulty is getting them back on their home country s streets. do we have deportable aliens who been released on u.s. streets because their home country refuses to repatriate them? do we have that going on? ....
that is a hugely under discussed point. you re telling us the very opposite, i mean, jim, that s great news and we wish more companies would raise workers wages. and i think part of that is also maybe lowering executive compensation in some way to get the scales back, not even, i don t think anybody is proposing that all walmart work aers make the same as executives, it would take 930 years for a mcdonald s crew member to earn what the company s ceo took home last year. that s just untenable, that type of dispair tri between the top and bottom, does not only make for a stable economy. no, we don t want two classes. we don t want best of times, worse of times. we don t want dickens and where some are benefitting and some doing very poorly. this has to do with the compensation at the top the ....