Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years

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22. BLS: real average hourly earnings down 0.1% from April to May, and down 0.7% in last 12 months

"real" is BLS-speak for inflation-adjusted. Actually earnings (in nominal dollars) went up, but prices (CPI) went up faster.

SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm

For production and non-supervisor workers:
real average hourly earnings down 0.3% from April to May, and down 0.8% in last 12 months

There's also info on real average WEEKLY earnings at the above link - they weren't quite as bad because the average workweek increased, but still down.

This, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm , is the essential companion piece of the CPI report - it comes out the same time as the CPI report

Thanks LetMyPeopleVote for the 2 posts above on the issue.

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While I'm at it: no, Trump's hand-picked person is not head of the BLS.
The acting director of the BLS is William J. Wiatrowski, a long time deputy director
who has been acting director a number of times before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics

That bozo, E.J Antoni that tRump nominated then withdrew his nomination after a lot of pushback. So Wiatrowski is still leading.
This furrow has been plowed many times before here in LBN.