real wage sump

  its  now a three-pete


         and 
i can hear howard C's 
                 amazed call 


"down goes wages ... down goes wages"

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"Last year was the third consecutive year
 in which weekly wages fell,
 after adjusting for price changes,
 according to department statistics 
on the 92 million private production
 and non-managerial service workers
 who make up more than 80 percent 
of the nation's workforce"