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Re:Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major ... by em500 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:46AM (#44838390)
Paychecks did go up though, +50% nominal[1], +11% real (inflation adjusted)[2], over the past 10 years.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881500Q [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

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Re:Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major ... by justin66 on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:29PM (#44838883)
Real wages didn't track with increases in productivity, which is sort of the long-standing problem, since the late seventies or early eighties. (the problem for workers, I mean)
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