Job growth beat expectations in August, but wage growth has lagged the latest inflation readings, adding urgency to a question economists are only beginning to wrestle with: Could AI pressure workers' pay before it costs them their jobs? The latest nonfarm payrolls report isn't the only source of government data showing deceleration in wage growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment Cost Index showed that inflation-adjusted wages and salaries decreased 0.4 percent year over year through June. And there is also a concerning longer-term trend in the national data: labor's share of nonfarm business output/income was 52.
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