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will4274
7y ago
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When you consider that it's 0.9% in the past year, and 3.2% total in the 39 years prior to that, it seems more like something to celebrate.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm
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FabHK
7y ago
Agreed, though the number you cited is increase of
average
real weekly earnings over that year, seasonally adjusted, while the much worse numbers quoted from the article are not even
median,
but
10th percentile
of real wages, IIRC.
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