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fromFast Company
1 day ago

Only 9 states beat inflation from 2020 to 2024. Is yours on the list?

From 2020 to 2024, consumer prices for things like housing, groceries, energy, and everyday essentials climbed 21%, as measured by the consumer price index. During that same period, the average American worker's pay rose 18%, from about $64,000 to $75,600, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Schrager: Affordability isn't a hoax. It's not a crisis for most, either.

Affordability pressures vary: some Americans face acute hardship, but a majority are not experiencing a nationwide affordability crisis.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Unions urge Reeves to prioritise living standards as CBI presses for shift on employment rights

The TUC said that Rachel Reeves must deliver a living standards budget on Wednesday to ease the pressure on working households whose incomes have remained stagnant in more than a decade. Analysis by the unions showed working people were just 12 a week better off compared with 2008 after a painful Tory pay hangover. Real wages grew at an average of just 0.04% each year under the Conservative government between May 2010 and April 2024, it found.
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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain's woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland

Brexit is the structural damage at the root of Britain’s long-term economic weakness, driving stalled growth, squeezed public services, and stagnant living standards.
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