These sentences:
Average weekly earnings went up from $1016 to $1236, a 21.6% increase. That’s come up short on the 23.4% inflation in that time period.
answer the implicit question in this sentence:
People can complain about how the economy isn’t working for regular people, but the last 5 years were actually a pretty good run for wage earners.
It wasn’t really a good run. Wages didn’t keep up with inflation. Even though wages are higher, the buying power with those wages is less.
Hey why do you think they call it “grave” danger