She wanted all poor people to have a floor below which their wages could never fall.
Between 1980 and 1987, average real wages fell by 2 percent.
Real wages did not grow in the last two years and will fall further.
The real wages of the workers fell about 50 percent from what they had been in 1913.
Between 1980 and 1986, average wages fell by 2 percent.
In terms of what they will buy, workers' average wages have been falling for 22 years.
Real wages have fallen 4.5 percent in the last three years.
He has said wages and conditions in the third world must rise, or our living standard will fall.
Further, if wages and prices were falling, people would start to expect them to fall.
During those years the minimum wage in real terms fell by nearly 70 percent.