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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by castlecrasher2 on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:00AM (#19281191)
The article says "wages up .3%"
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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by amphibian87 on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:07AM (#19281252)
So, a negligible amount?
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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by TheCoelacanth on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:42AM (#19281602)
That is not a negligible amount of growth for a single month.
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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by jandrese on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:50AM (#19281704)
It's a nice amount for a month, but the monthly figure is very noisy so it's hard to be all that excited about it.
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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by uxp100 on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:22AM (#19281398)
How much do you expect wages to rise in a month?
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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by ionised on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:03AM (#19281207)
Read the rest of my post.

The question stands, because the article doesn't specify whether it is talking about wages or wages in real terms.

Someone mind explaining what these downvotes are for? All I asked was a question.

This place is becoming like Stack Overflow.

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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by amanaplanacanal on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:38PM (#19283264)
Those numbers are always inflation adjusted.
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Re:U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years by ionised on Friday March 01, 2019 @03:33PM (#19284977)
Good to know, but I wasn't aware.
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