"That's very much a wage story," Wadford said. "Since the beginning of the year, wages for lower-income households have continued to fall...while inflation continues to remain stubbornly high." In 2025, 29% of lower-income households live paycheck to paycheck, up from 28.6% in 2023 and 27.1% in 2023.

asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 282d

inflation

Corporate greed.

baldingpudenda@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 282d

remains stubbornly high

It was starting to go down under biden, but they wanted their little trade war.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 282d

It's the economy, stupid!

BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 282d (1 reply)

Why? It's a goddamn mystery.

lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 281d

Like, not every grim headline makes me laugh out loud. Well done, satirical newspaper ‘usa today’.

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 282d

Cost of living goes 📈 while the average salary goes 📉 in relative spending power.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 281d

It's capitalism. Not this president or that president. Unbound capitalism coupled with greed equals war against the masses (poor). It's been going on for a long time now. See pre-French revolution and even further back. It's a bit louder under trump because he is brazen about it.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 282d

Dumb poors again

oh_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 281d

That same article would have been blaming Biden if he was President. Trump seems to never get any blame directly in the media…