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This is the hottest job market since the 1990s. Why aren't wages growing faster?

Jobs are plentiful. Unemployment is at a half-century low. One of the lingering black marks on this strong jobs picture is why wages aren't growing like they in the late 1990s when yearly wage growth routinely topped 4%.
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