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nabbed
Axios may be grasping at straws, but it's good to hear about a possible tiny slowing in the wealth gap.
manbart
Could inflation be a driver of these numbers (wage and spending growth for lower and middle households vs high) growing in tandem? Didn't see that mentioned in the article
toomuchtodo
Structural demographics is driving up wages, with the labor component being inflationary. The labor market is resilient because ~4M Boomers retire a year, ~11k/day, ~2M people 55+ die every year, about half of which are in the labor force; that means ~13k-14k workers leave the labor force every day in the US, ~400k/month.

America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population - https://www.axios.com/2026/07/07/gen-x-population-shrinking-... - July 7th, 2026

https://usafacts.org/articles/semiquincentennial-snapshot-th... - July 1st, 2026

Is the U.S. Labor Force Nearing Its Peak? - https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-bulletin/is-... - June 29th, 2026

The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival - https://www.suerf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/f_fa99ccdbe... - October 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680794 (citations)