Labor market is the best in 50 years

[Gateman_Wen]

The Wall St Journal reports:

New claims for unemployment benefits are trending at their lowest levels since 1968, a sign of how few layoffs are happening in the tightest labor market in half a century.
Job security today, by some measures, is even better than it was in the economic halcyon days of the late 1960s.

Now if the mainstream media would report on this a fervently as they are the inflation rate...

 

[NatMorton]

The Wall St Journal reports:


Now if the mainstream media would report on this a fervently as they are the inflation rate...

Are all those employees able to buy more or less with their weekly wage relative to two years ago?

 

[SkyChief]

The Wall St Journal reports:


Now if the mainstream media would report on this a fervently as they are the inflation rate...

How would reporting on the labor market impact people's distress with inflation?

 

[Gateman_Wen]

How would reporting on the labor market impact people's distress with inflation?

I believe you've completely missed the point.