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jplusequalttoday at 1:18 AM2 repliesview on HN

The median worker saw a small wage growth, on the scale of ~.5% a year.

However, it does says that 58% of all workers failed to keep up with the real wage growth trend we saw in the years leading up to the pandemic.

>So 63% didn't.

But more than a third of Americans did. You can't "glass two-thirds full" tens of millions of people seeing their actual purchasing power decrease.


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Dylan16807today at 2:02 AM

You can't glass one third empty it either. It's complicated and needs more numbers.

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GiorgioGtoday at 4:03 AM

I feel like people are blind to the obvious. The price of everything has gone up and it has outpaced most people’s wages.