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Economy

Cattledog

(5,914 posts) Fri Jan 10, 2020, 02:04 PM Jan 2020

Gains in retail and health. Manufacturing jobs stagnant. Wages up only 2.9%

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Mining jobs slip in December. (Original Post) Cattledog Jan 2020 OP

BLS says (as of November) CPI is up 2.1% year over year OnlinePoker Jan 2020 #1

Potato Patahto Farmer-Rick Jan 2020 #2

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1. BLS says (as of November) CPI is up 2.1% year over year

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 02:13 PM

Jan 2020

On paper, this means wages are doing better than inflation. I'm pretty sure most people would disagree.

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2. Potato Patahto

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 06:15 PM

Jan 2020

US wage growth dropped below 3 per cent last month for the first time since July 2018 as the economy added fewer jobs than expected, according to a report released on Friday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/47d61266-33a9-11ea-9703-eea0cae3f0de