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This article is what is disingenuous. You can always cherry pick ways why you think some statistics matter more than others, but that doesn't mean that "the dat
by Aunche 2y ago
This article is what is disingenuous. You can always cherry pick ways why you think some statistics matter more than others, but that doesn't mean that "the data is wrong". I don't have time to go through ever issue, but this one is particularly egregious
> The prevailing government indicator, known colloquially as “weekly earnings,” tracks full-time wages to the exclusion of both the unemployed and those engaged in (typically lower-paid) part-time work... Think of that: American workers on the median are making 16 percent less than the prevailing statistics would indicate.
As if that wasn't always the case. When you actually look at wages for the poorest Americas, they actually rose during the highest during the Biden administration https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/ https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/