{
  "id": 6775771,
  "title": "The Cost of Living vs. Hourly Earnings",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/the-cost-of-living-vs-hourly-earnings",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-11T16:30:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Econbrowser",
    "slug": "econbrowser",
    "url": "https://econbrowser.com/archives/2026/09/the-cost-of-living-vs-hourly-earnings"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Real average hourly earnings: Figure 1: Average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers deflated by headline CPI (blue), Cleveland Fed nowcast (blue +), deflated by wage earner and clerical worker CPI (red), both in 2025$. Light green denotes US-Iran war. Source: BLS, Cleveland Fed, and author’s calculations. Figure 2: CPI ex-shelter (blue), AIER […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}