{"id":224949,"date":"2026-05-10T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224949"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:54:53","slug":"why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224949","title":{"rendered":"Why does everything feel so expensive? Look at wages, not the CPI."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American workers are producing more than ever \u2014 but a decades-long wage gap has left them struggling with even the basics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-d4d4376e?mod=mw_rss_topstories\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American workers are producing more than ever \u2014 but a decades-long wage gap has left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi.jpg",1280,806,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-768x484.jpg",640,403,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-1024x645.jpg",640,403,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi.jpg",1280,806,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi.jpg",1280,806,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-1024x645.jpg",1024,645,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224949-why-does-everything-feel-so-expensive-look-at-wages-not-the-cpi-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}