Yes, the federal minimum wage hasn’t risen; that’s static and requires an act of congress to change. What happened is that the pandemic also gave a lot of people negotiating power, so the wages most people earn went up more than prices.
Wages weren’t stagnant though.
The key thing is that right now, wages are rising at about 4% per year, while prices are rising at about 3% per year. That’s a good place to be.
I wonder how much of a gratuity the Republican justices are going to get for this ruling.
Inflation of 3% per year is lower than median wage growth; it’s generally considered somewhat desirable because it transfers wealth from lenders (who tend to be well-off) to borrowers (who are less so)
The key thing is that it dropped down to around the long-term average of 3% per year. And did it quickly and without a recession. That combination is downright amazing.
When uploading images from windows (but not from the mac) .avif files are not included in the supported image types, even though they in fact work. These are common for news outlets to use, and I’m manually uploading to get them used as thumbnails.
Known bug?
Basically: the US isn’t the only country in the world, the things he’s doing are going to cut emissions in the long run, but only making a modest difference as yet, and CO2 accumulates over time
For a lot of people “Democracy” means “rule by rich white men” and not “a system where elections determine who will hold power”
I absolutely agree.
Vehicle sales remain below pre-pandemic levels
I don’t deny that conventional concrete is still being used at scale. It’s something like 1% of US emissions.
You can use a different chemistry to make a hard substance. There are a ton of options which look good in tests, and pretty much nobody uses them.
There are tables of that elsewhere
The problem hasn’t been “you can’t do it” but “architects and engineers don’t have enough experience with it to trust it, so they don’t use it” — a federal government purchasing program can fix that.
Which is why the federal government is trying to buy concrete made in different ways that don’t cause those emissions.
It’s not at full scale yet, and won’t be for some years. but it’s how you actually solve that kind of problem without making peoples’ lives worse.
Yes, a lot of money is spent on things like repairing highways. “Just don’t maintain the bridge” isn’t a good move.
Because a lot of the coverage is only done by news sources that you pay for. I’m actually not sharing a LOT because it’s in publications that don’t gift link.
Decarbonization is a worldwide multi-decade project. It’s not something that any one politician or country can do on its own.
Historically, the answer on this has involved charging very different amounts in different countries. This both enables some level of access by the poor and maximizes profits.