Average wages also went down by 2.9% over the 12 months ending in February.

The minimum wage goes up again next year, to $4.25.

My wages haven't gone up and the real inflation is way above the figures we are given.

When the minimum wage goes up, the number of hours is supposed to go down.

In fact, your real wages, on the average, have been going down.

But average wages went up by only 1 percent, so the rest of that increase must have come largely from extra work hours.

"Real wages for America's workers have gone down," she said.

Agricultural and domestic jobs were a group effort, so the wage went to the family.

And as wages go, so goes the American standard of living.

Inflation was high during the war, but wages went up even faster.