And if you want to create growth in economic value-added, you have to do things that increase increase those aggregate wages, or increase those aggregate profits, or both.

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Employment and wages might dramatically increase in the aggregate in right-to-work states, but not necessarily for public workers, let alone teachers, nor necessarily for the reasons that right-to-work proponents contend.

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Mr. HANSON: So when you look at the aggregate impact of illegal immigration on U.S. wages, it isn't all that large.

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Falling aggregate demand shows up primarily as rising unemployment, and only secondarily as falling wages.

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However, the compounding costs from an incomplete education shows up in lost wages for employees, remedial training among colleges and universities, and even our aggregate growth rates for the national economy.

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