This article is:
A.) over a decade old
B.) doesn’t actually show falling wages
C.) horribly misleading and from a highly biased think tank
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Anonymous#65w
things have been kinda wonky recently bc of the pandemic which is why I went earlier + epi is not highly biased 😭
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Anonymous#25w
Why not just post a graph of real wages over time? Why post a decade old article that avoids the only graph that really answers the question?
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Anonymous#25w
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Anonymous#65w
Here’s real median weekly earnings. The only time they’ve been higher than the most recent data is when the 2020 stimulus payments went out.
A reasonable person can’t possibly look at this and conclude that wages are falling.
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Anonymous#65w
Cool. Now where’s the chart for inflation?
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Anonymous#55w
“Real” means that its already adjusted for inflation.
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Anonymous#65w
Small issue… the Trump administration blatantly lies. Anyone who publishes numbers that hurt their narrative literally gets fired.