[ch4s3]

> Inflation wiping out income growth

Real income means inflation adjusted, so we actually see the median income outpacing inflation right now.

> More people outside employment than COVID or Great Recession

There's a lot going on here. One factor is that many people retired early during the pandemic and are going to skew this stat. It's also worth pointing out that the labor force participation rate is ~62% and peaked historically at 67%, so it's not that far off.

> Are you ignorant or propaganda peddler

This is needlessly inflammatory.

[lowbloodsugar]

“Inflation adjusted” is offset by the changes to what inflation measures. And again income has only gone up because people are working multiple jobs.

[ch4s3]

The basket of goods is totally transparent and related to things people really buy. Would you want a 2026 inflation number to reference VCR prices?

Only 5.3% of US workers have multiple jobs. The long term average is just above 5%. So it is false to claim more workers have multiple jobs according to BLS stats. This number was above 6% for most of the 1990s.

[lowbloodsugar]

You are just outing yourself as someone who is a slave to meaningless numbers. Do you think side gigs are reported? You quote unemployment numbers without admitting that people who have given up or simple failed to land a job are not included in those numbers. The numbers are gamed. Feel free to keep showing us who you are.

[ch4s3]

> Do you think side gigs are reported?

Yes. The FRED data includes informal employment. They do months and months of exhaustive surveys all of the country to put together their data.

> You quote unemployment numbers without admitting that people who have given up or simple failed to land a job are not included in those numbers.

No, I included data about labor force participation, which is only down a little.

> The numbers are gamed

Prove it.

[lowbloodsugar]

I mean, everything you just said is trivially refutable with just Google. FRED data isn’t the governments unemployment figures. FRED data relies on people to self report their side gigs that they aren’t paying taxes on? It is a known gap.

[senordevnyc]

Ah. So you’re fine with sources, but just the ones that support your position.

[ch4s3]

Then try to refute it. All of my number came from FRED.