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As Inflation Jumps, Paychecks Don't

Thu, 17 Jul 2008

Statistics show that while inflation is going up and up, paychecks aren't keeping up.

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Play from 0:13"… time last year the biggest enabled jumping almost two decades. Meanwhile the average hourly wages up only three and a half percent for the same period in other words while costs are skyrocketing your paycheck probably isn't. And economists don't expect the situation to improve any time soon even chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers today that inflation poses a risk for the economy. A might be time to hang up the car keys in hop on the bandwagon or subway bus train -- trolley. Americans are avoiding the gas station by using public transport more than ever before according to the American public transportation association. During the first three months of 2008 alone Americans took 85 million works at some public transport. Compared with the same three month period last year says VP TA a public transport systems must also cope with the rising fuel costs. Even as the struggling economy means that they are seeing less tax revenue. Even so they're doing their best to respond to an overwhelming growth and demand some urban planning experts speculate that we could be seeing the pain at the health. Turning into a long term nationwide preference for public transport. The consumer watch imac -- its. …" at 0:13
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Play from 0:01"… This summit county bomb squad was up two suspicious packages from a vehicle parked at a twins' birth gas station. And this is the man at the center of the investigation. Surveillance video provided by twins -- police shows the man injuring …" at 0:01
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