by Laura Conaway

I was just about to publish a very short letter from a semiconductor engineer who lives in Texas. He said the plant just announced a temporary 10 percent pay cut. The engineer writes that the cut is across the board.

And then another listener sent this news, about a 10 percent pay cut at another plant, Agilent, in Santa Rosa, Calif.

We asked if you were seeing falling wages. Clearly, some people are.