• YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    it’s not hard to find the sources, it’s an incredibly prominent BLS measurement.

    They are correct, march 2020 to now there has been a slight decrease in real average wages (which isn’t even the best measure tbh but it’s what biden used). Sure, if you go back earlier, to the months before the pandemic, then it’s a slight increase, but not by a whole lot.

    More to the point: Biden, in my opinion, implies a sort of economic recovery, as though the pandemic tanked wages and now his policies are have brought them through to recovery. That is not the case. Here’s what the graph looks like:

    we are back where we started, essentially. nothing has fundamentally changed.