Beaver@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoBiden's performance has been exceptional where it matters: It's the economywww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkBiden's performance has been exceptional where it matters: It's the economywww.salon.comBeaver@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square38fedilink
minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months ago Wages are, in fact, up Going from an unlivable wage to another slightly higher unlivable wage is not progress.
minus-squareEnderWiggin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoWages are going up relative to inflation. That’s literal growth and progress. No one is arguing that people aren’t struggling. Has there ever been a time in US history when people weren’t?
minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoInflation still outpaced wages
minus-squareEnderWiggin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agohttps://www.epi.org/blog/average-wages-have-surpassed-inflation-for-12-straight-months/#:~:text=Average hourly wage growth has,improve their standard of living. This is exhausting. Be better, Lemmy.
minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·5 months agoBought to us by the same people telling us we are doing fine
Going from an unlivable wage to another slightly higher unlivable wage is not progress.
Wages are going up relative to inflation. That’s literal growth and progress. No one is arguing that people aren’t struggling. Has there ever been a time in US history when people weren’t?
Inflation still outpaced wages
https://www.epi.org/blog/average-wages-have-surpassed-inflation-for-12-straight-months/#:~:text=Average hourly wage growth has,improve their standard of living.
This is exhausting. Be better, Lemmy.
Bought to us by the same people telling us we are doing fine