The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed a 50-year low for the US unemployment rate. But it also showed wage growth slowing to its slowest pace in more than a year. The phenomenon of slowing wage growth and rising employment levels has persisted for years, and is likely the result of several trends in the national labor market. Here are some of the factors likely stifling wage growth around the US, and why a low unemployment rate isn't necessarily linked to...

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