Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100064731

Real wages are lower today than in 1973. despite the fact that productivity has risen over 80 percent. The benefits of rising productivity are going to the richest members of our society. CEO compensation today is 420 times what it is for our workers. Medical costs have skyrocketed. Good manufacturing jobs are being sent overseas. Many workers are squeezed between the impact of corporate outsourcing on the one hand and wagedepressing effects of immigration on the other. In Virginia. real median hourly wages fell by 3.6 percent just in the past 2 years. Hundreds of thousands of Virginians. just like millions of Americans. have no health insurance.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JIM WEBB
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VA
Gender
M
Date
2007-06-26
Speech ID
1100064731
Paragraph
#0
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