Re: Here's who's buying panic rooms and bullet-proof doors amid crime fears in NYC - and it's not who you'd think

[Bob F <bobnospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/16/2024 2:17 PM, Ed P wrote:
> On 5/16/2024 4:34 PM, max headroom wrote:
>> In news:v23s4a$1b7a6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Bob F <bobnospam@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
>>
>
>>
>> Americans' real weekly earnings dropped sharply in April and still
>> remain well
>> below their level when President Joe Biden first took office,
>> according to data
>> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
>>
>> Real average weekly earnings fell to $1,191.93 in April, declining by
>> 0.4% in
>> the month and 4.8% compared to the start of Biden's term in January 2021,
>> according to data calculated by the Daily Caller News Foundation from
>> the BLS.
>> Prices have risen over 19% since Biden first took office and 3.4% in
>> the last
>> year, degrading the value of Americans' wages.
>>
>> The decline in earnings is also due in part to a decrease in the
>> average number
>> of weekly hours worked, which fell from 34.9 in January 2021 to 34.2
>> in April,
>> according to the BLS.
>>
>> Real wages have been degraded due to persistently high inflation under
>> Biden,
>> which was measured in April at 3.4% year-over-year after peaking at 9%
>> in June
>> 2022.
>>
>
> Some wages have gone up. Become a CEO.
>
> How much have CEO salaries increased?
> In the past 10 years, CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more
> than $5 million to an average of $16.7 million in 2022. Meanwhile, the
> average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $15,460 over the past decade,
> earning on average just $61,900 in 2022. Blackstone Inc.
>
>
> https://tinyurl.com/vf5cfbxb
>
> The early results reveal that Equilar 500 CEO pay jumped in 2023. Among
> the sample of companies in the study, compensation for CEOs reached
> $15.7 million in 2023, which would mark an 11.3% increase from 2022.
> This surge in CEO compensation can be partly attributed to the complex
> changes and effects brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

And in the meanwhile, Biden, and the Democratic Party has brought never
before seen increases in the minimum wages paid to the lowest paid
workers in many parts of this country, despite the never ending
opposition of trump and the GOP.