• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    BLS never announced that. An “economic” think tank did. Coincidentally the math doesn’t work out and it’s an election year.

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yes, they did. They publish data monthly on average hourly earnings of all employees. It doesn’t take a master statistician to take that and compare it against CPI-U and see that the average earnings one is now bigger compared against a Jan 2020 baseline. Do you want me to send you my excel from last night?