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Listeners have been writing in this week about their experiences with falling wages. Now let's dive deeper into what those stories might mean.
Today on Planet Money:
-- A book editor in the Northeast says his company just cut his wages — and a lot of other people's — by five percent. He says the idea is to avoid layoffs.
-- Economist Howard Rosen of the Peterson Institute says the actual data on wages is mixed. He's more troubled by signs that the economy is still contracting, with many millions of people unemployed and major manufacturers putting everything on hold.
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