The Language of Betrayal

SergioL652 at aol.com SergioL652 at aol.com
Tue Nov 28 18:41:20 PST 2000


In a message dated 11/28/00 7:01:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, dhenwood at panix.com writes:


> Quick question. In 1992 one of Clinton's campaign slogans was that the US
> >was last among industrialized nations in hourly wage. Was this statistic
> >changed much during his presidency? I have not seen this mentioned
> anywhere
> >in the media.
>
> The BLS numbers on international comparison of manufacturing wages
> are at <http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/ichcc.t02.htm>. (These
> include fringe benefits - conceptually, they're the cost to
> employers, not the benefit to workers. But they're close enough for
> the net.) The U.S. comes in 11th, if I'm counting right, which was up
> from 13th during the '92 campaign (if I'm remembering right). The
> dollar has been pretty strong during this period, so some of the
> improvement is a currency effect, and not a wage effect.
>
> Doug
>
>
>

Thanks, Doug

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