@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.world • 1 year agoUS economy going strong under Biden – Americans don’t believe itwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square373arrow-up1711arrow-down150
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year ago$30 of increase since the 1980s is entirely are up by problems in how we measure CPI. Even the understatement in housing alone would eat up that “increase.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year ago$30 of real wages increase. Yes we do have a housing shortage, but OP is wrong about wages not increasing
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•1 year agoSystemic problems in how we measure “real” dollars have probably outpaced $30 in that timeframe.
$30 of increase since the 1980s is entirely are up by problems in how we measure CPI. Even the understatement in housing alone would eat up that “increase.”
$30 of real wages increase.
Yes we do have a housing shortage, but OP is wrong about wages not increasing
Systemic problems in how we measure “real” dollars have probably outpaced $30 in that timeframe.