Because of the elevated energy prices, we are at a headline inflation rate of about 3.5%.
Americans on average are breaking even and working-class Americans at the bottom of the wage spectrum are doing a little better than inflation.
The good news is wage increases are going to keep going. This war will end and those will turn into wage gains.
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