Yeah I don't think this is something they're gonna be able to talk people into lol. The economy might be doing okay, but that means fuck all for the average Joe.

Remember to translate economic news properly.

The Economy Rich people’s yacht money is at record highs, so clearly we don’t have a problem with inflation corporate price gouging to keep their profit margins above the margins when they were stealing from taxpayers during Covid.

Any increase I've experienced in my pay has been completely surpassed by healthcare bills and inflation.

As of the end of 2023, the typical U.S. worker could afford the same goods and services as in 2019, prior to the pandemic

The hell I can.

and had an additional $1,400 to spend or save per year

Bullshit.

And Yellen acknowledged that life remains precarious for millions of people

Yeah, that's not good. There are 209M 16-64 people in the US.

Childcare is expensive. Education is expensive

That affects a shitton of that 209M.

We know that almost half of Americans on one occasion or another have felt they couldn't afford to fill a prescription

That's not getting ahead. Lady you've got some WILD definition of "ahead" that I would say over 50% of the United States does not share. Holy fucking shit. You all should fucking stop for a second, especially with interviews with CBSNews. We are not in positive territory. That is not the definition of victory by anyone grounded in reality.

I'm glad people's paychecks are going up a paltry sum. But none of that makes any difference if we cannot afford food, live saving medicine, or child care. Those are really, really, really fucking important things. There is no victory if those are not addressed. I get since you're under the treasury, money in/money out is the primary research here. But maybe just stick to those factors and not a broader commentary on the economy if those three basic things are still major issues with over 50% of the United States.

HOLY SHIT how disconnected from reality can one be?

This is almost on the level of Maoist censorship of any societal ills, while reporting that "all is well as it should be, as laid out for us by our benevolent system"

Looks at my paycheck

Looks at my last grocery receipt

Bullshit

Fuck. Janet. Yellen.

must be weird to be so divorced from reality....

Janet Yellen takes money from Goldman Sachs and many other K-street banks and continues to do their bidding.

All while unabashedly lying and shitting all over the American citizenry.

She’s been lying about inflation for YEARS now. She thinks we are clueless.

I've gotten three raises from my company that haven't kept pace with inflation lol. It's ridiculous. Oh, and insurance benefits cut substantially.

I am?

Another crypt-keeper-style government official

She need to learn difference between main and median.

I make 80% more than my 20 year younger self and I feel like I’m worse off. So yeah not so much.

Ahead of what, Janet, homelessness? Wages are only just catching up enough to keep supporting poverty for the lower class.

Don’t look at the man behind the whatever. Things are awesome, I’m tellin’ ya!

I for one can definitely afford more than I did in 2019, but I am in Europe. Now just waiting for interest rates to go down following inflation, that would be great.

Where the stats they use. Are they following one family or an entire town in bumpkins-ville-field-ton to make these statements. Taxes aren’t even due, earnings reports mean diddly from companies who have hit “record profits” after global pandemic. Whose ass do these economists sniff to get this numbers crunched. We still have variances in from 350$k earners hiding money, all while people less than 100k$ can afford to put down payments for cars, houses, food, credit cards, student debt.