Affordability and the Health Care Crisis

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One of the issues that bothered many economists, including me, were the complaints that people were falling behind — even as the data on wages and inflation consistently showed that wages were outpacing prices, especially for those at the bottom end of the wage distribution.  Part of this story was clearly a right-wing effort to trash the Biden economy before the election.

My Twitter feed was full of people working two or three jobs, but who still couldn’t make ends meet.