Harrison Bergeron said:
Real wages have declined three years in a row - down almost 40%.
Wealth inequality is skyrocketing under Harris after declining under Trump and skyrocketing under Obama.
In November 2023, nearly 6 in 10 workers (57 percent) earned higher annual inflation-adjusted wages than the year before, a share higher than its 20172019 pre-pandemic average. The median inflation-adjusted change in workers' hourly earnings was about 45 cents, which translates to a more than $900 annual increase for a worker who works full time, year-round.
Young adult workers who were between ages 25 and 34 in 2019and are now between ages 29 and 38have seen their real median wage rise 12 percent since the onset of the pandemic. The real median wage also grew among cohorts of workers who were ages 35 to 44 and 45 to 54 in 2019.
Real average wage growth for a typical worker has seen the second-fastest recovery during this recession recovery of all five recession recoveries since 1980. Notably, the current economic recovery is the only one in which robust real wage growth has occurred in tandem with a rapid recovery of the unemployment rate.
These results indicate an economy that is delivering historic, broad-based real wage gains for workers while emerging from one of the deepest recessions on record. Policymakers should look to build on this momentum through policies that raise wages and cut costs of living, such as increasing the federal minimum wage, making more workers eligible for overtime pay, and improving the affordability of child care and health care.
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