Wages Are Falling Behind Inflation, Leaving Many Workers Struggling
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Despite some wage growth, the typical American worker’s pay has not kept pace with rising inflation over the past four years, especially in professions like education, while job growth favors sectors like healthcare and hospitality.
Today's Stocks & Topics: PYPL - PayPal Holdings Inc., Market Wrap, OKE - Oneok Inc., KPP Newsletter, Wages Are Falling Behind Inflation, Leaving Many Workers Struggling, Key Benchmark Numbers: Treasury Yields, Gold, Silver, Oil and Gasoline, Pros and Cons of 351 Exchange, EXEL - Exelixis Inc., Inflation, AVGO - Broadcom Inc., TT - Trane Technologies Plc., COST - Costco Wholesale Corp., The De Minimis Exemption.
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| 0:14.6 | Independent thinking, shared success. |
| 0:19.0 | Invest talk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, |
| 0:25.3 | serving clients throughout the United States. Here is KPP Financial Portfolio Manager, Luke |
| 0:32.3 | Guerrero. Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to the Friday, August 22nd, 2025 edition |
| 0:41.6 | of Invest Talk. I'm your host, Luke Guerrero, and as we are hurling towards the end of summer, |
| 0:48.3 | it's crazy, there's only five trading days left in this month. I feel as though 2025 is going really quick. And so if you |
| 0:58.4 | don't pay attention, you can be bogged down in all the changes that are happening around us. |
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