Why do you think wages aren't growing still?

Wage growth this year barely kept up with inflation. And when you consider that housing, healthcare, and education are still spiralling upward faster then it means that US workers are actually falling behind still. You'd think with such a tight job market that wages would start growing more, but they just aren't. Why do you think that is?

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Icantsoishant · 36-40, M

Because those things failing shouldn't ruin everything else. Healthcare needs to change wildly, not force society to adapt to its brokenness. Housing is stable in a lot of places I know, unless people are actively moving there and supply cant meet demand, but this is life. Demand goes up when they pay is greater than the cost of living. Increasing pay incentivizes more people to move there and continues the housing issue. If it becomes to expensive to live there then growth will slow and housing will eventually meet up with or surpass demand and go down in cost. Education is going up for a lot of reasons but is also in need of reform because it is a joke. I think pay should stay the same and everything else should change rather than enable these broken systems.