Why? It’s a goddamn mystery.
Stuff more expensive. Work no more pay good.
Needs more crayon and grunts
Already ate crayons when food ran low. Too tired from work for unnecessary grunts.
Cost of living goes 📈 while the average salary goes 📉 in relative spending power.
Capitalism. There. Saved you a click.
Wtf is this headline
I’m not lucky enough to have a paycheck anymore since Trump and Musk laid me off.
Removed by mod
It is because of the entire predator class. The democrats have done fuck all since they serve the same masters.
Removed by mod
Trump, Republicans and corporate greed.
Lol “why”…
For real, who wrote this headline? Elon Musk? Grok? Jeff Bezos?
Cost of living rising but wages don’t match
Why? That’s easy! Too much avocado toast!
Don’t forget starbucks coffee.
It’s the economy, stupid!
“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.
inflation
Corporate greed.
remains stubbornly high
It was starting to go down under biden, but they wanted their little trade war.
Dumb poors again
