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US Sees Highest Ever Increase in Poverty
(consortiumnews.com)
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Is the cost of living crisis that crazy?
I left the US in 2017 tired of a decade of stagnant wages.
Of course in 2018 the wages started spiking. But is all of it eaten by cost of living increases?
Yes. A congressional report found that nearly 50% of inflation went straight into corporate coffers. Record profits across the board. They turned the dial up until our wage gains were all gone.