Re: Wages Up by Smallest Amount in Nine Years

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:43:02 -0800, Sue wrote:

> I already posted that the highest inflation corrected average hourly
> incomes occurred

Just to throw a little levity into the discussion, the IEEE, representing
corporate and academic interests, noted that the quality of entering
engineering students hasn't changed much over the years except now many
require remedial arithmetic.

BTW, watch out for inflation, it isn't the same as the CPI. Arthur had a
good reference, but I forgot to record it.

--
Glenn

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