VERY GOOD NEWS for us ‼️
Think of how good it will be in a few months when we vote!
…" you probably won’t even believe. Ready?
Real wages are now growing in the United States at a pace faster than the spike in the cost of living since the pandemic.
"More than that: For the first time in decades, wage growth is consistently stronger in the middle and at the bottom than at the top."
The problem for the #Tories form of rentier #capitalism, which concentrates its benefits to the very richest in society... is that it cuts away #middleclass support for the system the Tories have wrought.
Certainly, many would dream of having the problems that these earners in the top 10% of incomes have, but equally their frustration is very real, and may be about to become politically explosive for the Tories....
Privatized #Boston rail: “We don’t want to #strike, but we will when we are legally able to” - new cleaners pay so low, eligible for #FoodStamps and #Section8
one interesting impact of #workingfromhome has been a reduction in burglaries in areas with relatively high concentrations of #WFH households (one might call them #middleclass neighbourhoods?).
But, this may have displaced robberies & break-ins into areas with relatively less WFH households; those who work in sectors from hospitality to manufacturing, that require physical presence.. (shall we say #workingclass households?).
Also The Middle Class: Drives Tarquin and Jocasta to school -five hundred metres from their destached, sub-urban fortress - in a three-metre-tall, two lane-wide four by four. Flies around the world on airliners, on holiday, six times a year. Throws away more food than they eat...
" The IRS announced an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes."