Productivity growth hits skid while wage pressures mount

Friday, November 3, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Growth in productivity -- the key ingredient for rising living standards -- skidded to a standstill in the late summer while workers' wages and benefits shot up at the fastest clip in more than two decades.

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