In economy genuinely at full employment, unemployment is low enough to make employers constantly compete for workers, because employers must offer wages that rise in line with economy, wide productivity wages of most workers rise year after year. Workers have not had this kind of leverage for at least 15 years and have had it Only sporadically since 1979 as a result, even as productivity has increased, workers wages have essentially stagnated. Meanwhile, the benefits of income growth have gone disproportionally to those at the top