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Just reading around this morning, including a quick glance in at coverage of the trial where MT Greene will appear today. Raw Story says Greene
Double checking, the CPR news of January 2021 points to someone else using the phrase:
And on Jan 5, 2021, she tweeted on Parler:![](https://i.postimg.cc/5016Yq6T/lbparler3.png)
Inflation musing: You know that $15/hour living wage aspiration? Given an 8.5% inflation rate just last year (not counting the cumulative inflation that has occurred since $15/hour was first proposed), that rate would have to be at least $16.27/hour. Welcome back to the days of inflation where you constantly need to raise fees, wages, internet rates, etc. just to stay even.
Employment musing. Department of Labor tracks the average wage and Consumer Price Index. "Real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.8 percent from February to March 2022. This result stems from an increase of 0.4 percent in average hourly earnings combined with an increase of 1.2 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers." Both numbers are indexed to Mar 2006, when both start at 100.0.
Since Biden was inaugurated, here's the list of Average hourly earnings index and the Real average hourly earnings index
Feb 2021….149.9 ….113.6
Mar 2021….150.0….112.9
Apr 2021….150.7….112.7
May 2021….151.5….112.5
Jun 2021….152.3….112.2
Jul 2021….153.0….112.3
Aug 2021….153.5….112.2
Sep 2021….154.3….112.4
Oct 2021….155.2….112.1
Nov 2021….155.8….111.7
Dec 2021….156.6….111.6
Jan 2022….157.5….111.5
Feb 2022….157.7….110.8
Mar 2022….158.3….109.9
Bimbobert's cash cow is running dry….
"Grasping for straws": Trump's "MAGA goon squad" scrambles for cash as campaign donations dry up | Salon.com