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Can you provide evidence that real inflation adjusted wages are going up? It's my understanding that wages for the bottom 60% of the country have fallen or stagnated since the 70's and have only gone up in terms of non-inflation adjusted, or have actually gone down.

The wealthy/elite classes are doing absolutely fantastic under Trump though, and are getting tax cuts and wage increases. Those don't represent America, though.

Edit: Simple Google search shows my thoughts to be true [1]. Wages aren't rising quicker than inflation/cost of living, so saying wages are increasing or are "up" is a bit inaccurate.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2018/09/25/real-...




They're up a fraction of a percent after adjusting for inflation. Here's where I get that figure: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/q3-ends-with-...


Well there is this report from yesterday: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3...

A 3.1% jump in wages should beat inflation at least for this year.


Less than 0.5% increase then. Not too great!

Does this also take into account wage increases of the top 10%? If so, that article would be wildly misleading.




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