If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power

Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by galieos_ghost on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:32AM (#17246492)

housing cost, health insurance, and college tuition aren't counted in inflation. Economists and politicians can lie all they want but there's a reason people are angry enough to vote Trump or Bernie Sanders and it's because they can tell their standard of living is dropping. Don't piss on my boot and tell me it's raining

If the establishment was doing it's job people wouldn't vote anti-establishment.

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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by IkmoIkmo on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:38AM (#17246530)

> housing cost and health insurance aren't counted in inflation.

Generally, that's simply not true. There are infinite different measures of inflation and it's up to the synthesizer of the inflation metric to include or exclude things, but generally housing and medical care are part of the equation.

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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by sshagent on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:35AM (#17246510)

Indeed. My rent has gone up in 50% from 5 years, 100% total from 10 years ago. My salary is up just 20% over that 10 years and still well below what i was rocking pre 2008.

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