The money being made available by the corporation, he said, "could have been used to increase workers wages."

This has forced the government to increase minimum wages of workers.

That helps the economy to grow, driving up the wages of future workers.

Will admitting more immigrants drive down the wages of American workers?

At the same time, wages of most workers are barely keeping up with inflation.

Consider the median wage of full-time workers who are at least 25 years old.

Migrant workers wages are usually paid on a piece rates basis.

The wages of typical American workers, meanwhile, barely grew at all.

So they thought that as the population changed so too would the wages of workers.

Throughout this century, the real wages of American workers have risen in line with productivity.