Tag: wages
High prices persist – making life less affordable – and further increases are on the horizon This year’s elections confirmed the hollowness of arguing that low inflation means that Americans are doing fine. Consumers don’t care about inflation; they care about high prices, and they see high prices when they go to the grocery store,…
The cost to employers of providing their workers with health insurance has remained fairly stable for years. At first blush, this seems like good news for workers. When benefit costs rise, employers tend to take it out of their employees’ wages. But as costs stabilized, health insurance no longer exerted the downward pressure on paychecks…
