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by will4274 2583 days ago
> The article text does not really support the headline

While that's true, it' mostly because its a bad article rather than the headline being wrong. Of that 4.1% gain over 40 years, 0.9% were in the the past year. America is seeing an economic boom go on longer than expected and low unemployment is allowing people who left the labor market to re-enter and _slowly_ pushing wages up.

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

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You're comparing apples (average) and oranges (10th percentile) here.