Sentence examples for slumping wages from inspiring English sources

"I would never say welfare plays no role," says Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, "but it's not the main thing .Analysts on the left argue that the collapse of the black family is largely a consequence of slumping wages for unskilled black men, which makes them less attractive as mates.

But Iglesias argues that Spain's recovery has come at the expense of the Spanish working-class, which continues to suffer from slumping wages and persistently high unemployment — still 23%.

The Labor Department reported that productivity slumped and wage costs surged in the fourth quarter of 2008.

A graph documenting the last 150 years shows that wages slumped around 1860 before recovering to leave workers no better off by 1870.

Instead, real wages slumped, uneven development intensified and productivity stagnated.

Moreover, an estimated 150 million young people who are working can't climb out of poverty due to low wages, dead-end jobs, and slumping economies.

But the legions of small German parts suppliers feel squeezed by slumping prices, and many quietly threatened to abandon the industrywide wage deals if they became too expensive.

The country's economy is struggling to recover from slumping investment and reduced income from tourism, even as workers demand higher wages.

Then, with coal prices slumping in the spring of 1925, two coal companies here tried to slash miners' wages, bringing on the second strike.

Meanwhile, prices and wages have slumped, raising fears of a prolonged and painful bout of deflation that could drag Japan's economy back into contraction.

But the 1920s and 1930s depression pulled prices down, as demand slumped, and unemployment brought wages down.