Low-wage workers saw their real (inflation-adjusted) wages decline in 2025, a sharp reversal from the historically fast real wage growth they had experienced over the previous five years. Middle- and high-wage workers continued to experience modest gains in 2025, according to our new analysis (see Figure A). We examine wage growth across deciles, using the…
  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    And, as usual, the party in power’s response is to gaslight us and claim that the stock market proves the poor are prospering.

    As if any of that shit rolls downhill.

    • DancingBear@midwest.social
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      1 day ago

      If you divided all the stocks issued in the US stock markets by issue number

      and put them in a basket, chose one randomly,

      there is an 87% chance that that specific stock belongs to someone in the top 10% of wealth in the country.

      There’s either millions or billions of stocks in existence, but this is still true.