re: #135 wrenchwench

‘They’ are not driving down wages. Employers are not raising wages enough to hire anyone at a legal wage, let alone a wage that can be lived on. If wages went up, consumer spending would go up, the economy would improve.

A large body of workers with no ability to approach authorities about abuses and substandard wages or working conditions is going to drive down wages. But that is a part of a much larger problem.