Real Wages Drop Again as Inflation Continues to Outpace Pay Increases – IOTW Report

Real Wages Drop Again as Inflation Continues to Outpace Pay Increases

CTH– Knowing, not predicting – knowing – the Biden economic policies were going to create massive U.S. inflation in the years to follow, in 2021 I pinned a tweet thread to the top of my timeline on the CTH Twitter account that could be used as a reference. [You Can Read Here] Not a single month of statistical data has come in the past two years that was not entirely predictable.  Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) [DATA HERE] is no different.

Inflation is a measure of the change in a price. It is usually presented in terms of a percentage of change. When inflation starts to lessen, what that means is the rate of the price increase slows down. The price is still going up, but at a slower pace.

February prices overall increased 0.4% for the month, putting the current rate of annual inflation at 6.0%.  Meaning prices (on aggregate) are 6% higher than this exact same time last year.

Meanwhile, wages increased 0.2% for the month, and hours worked dropped 0.3% [DATA]. Wages only rising by half the rate of prices, and hours worked dropping, means the net ‘real wages’ declined, yet again, by 0.4%.
Workers are going backwards.

5 Comments on Real Wages Drop Again as Inflation Continues to Outpace Pay Increases

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  2. Biden’s comical’economic policies’ was established to destroy the poor and low income and drive out the middle class. Biden is ‘that-guy’ who yearns to rub shoulders with elitists and globalists which is why he bends to their every command. A slob who has no more inkling about anything than a tree stump. No offense to tree stumps and their affiliates.

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