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> Wages have gone up significantly recently

"Since President Biden took office in January 2021, the increase in prices due to inflation is over 14%, resulting in a loss in real wages of nearly 4%"

https://budget.house.gov/press-release/fiscal-state-of-the-u...

"Americans With a College Degree Saw Wages Decline the Most in Two Decades"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-10/americans...

"Between 1973 and 2015, real hourly earnings for the typical 25–54 year-old man with only a high school degree declined by 18.2 percent"

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.163



https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

You can zoom in to any point on the chart to tell whatever story you wish.


Labor is taking less and less of what it creates home with it, you can't hide that with gamed CPI: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG

Every recession labor gives up a little more ground and never gains it back.

More reading: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2019/08/capitals-gain-is-lat...




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