The purchasing power of average Americans has been in decline for generations.
The trickle down is almost here, just need to give the rich and powerful just a few more tax breaks, monopolies, legal impunity. Just stay the course.
Only 40%?
So about 50% above and 50% below?
Cool so head in to the office so they can refuse salary increases but you essentially get a pay cut since you're not losing $12000 for daycare and $3000 for parking spaces
It outpaced virtually everyone over the last 5 years at some point. It's all just a big fucking joke to the current administration.
The economy is a fucking mess, and Trump only has time to fuck more of our poorest people, and even our middle class, over in creative and new ways.
From the article, the 40% with falling wages are not the ones I expected. Custodians, grocers, and service sector are in the top 50% it seems, their wages are doing well vs inflation. It's surgeons and programmers who are seeing wages drop.
So it's kinda a weird headline. From the article, this sounds like the labor gains I would want to see.
Overtime tax is gone and they cheered as their buying power and rights and social services and education and retirements and possibly friends and family are taken away from you by a group of people who support a rapist felon child diddler. God™ bless the USA.
There's a solution to this, but I don't think a lot of people here will like it. Fix the money and stop measuring your worth in worthless fiat currencies
For the conservative people, hold and measure your net worth in gold and you'll notice things get cheaper.
For those, like myself, who are native to the internet, do the same thing but with Monero.