1.   Threatening to go abroad to lower wage costs certainly plays a role in lowering wages at home.

2.   By discouraging saving, he asserts, the tax hurts investment in the economy and leads to lower real wages.

3.   He has lowered his wages some.

4.   Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard, estimates that immigration has lowered the wages of native-born high school dropouts by roughly a third.

5.   The growing trade deficit with China, they further argue, has already cost hundreds of thousands of US jobs and lowered the wages of American workers.

6.   They argue that NAFTA has lowered American wages, cost American jobs and harmed the environment along the U.S.-Mexico border.

7.   They say that immigrants contribute to the depletion of natural resources, lower the wages of American workers and overburden public schools and social-service agencies.

8.   Top players from Eastern Europe are also influencing the picture by agreeing to lower wages than domestic players.

9.   Union officials contend the trade partnership involving Mexico, the United States and Canada cost U.S. jobs and lowered wages.

10.   Unions are angry about cost-cutting plans at both airlines that will lower wages and compel them to work longer hours.