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On average workers can afford more stuff per hour of work than a year ago; hourly wages grew faster than consumer prices, 3.9% vs 3.3%. Caveat: rise, dip, & rise in 2020-2021 earnings mostly not real. Low-wage workers let go spring '20, wage of still-employed up. 2021 service hiring spike reversed
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Aaron Sojourner
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Last thing. BLS does amazing work to create timely, accurate info about America's working families, a huge public good.
They are there for us & we need to show up for them.
If you care about workers & employment, follow & join Friends of BLS.
www.friendsofbls.org/about-the-fr...
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