I will add to your complaint a couple of tid bits that are studiously ignored by the left wing press. A significant percentage of those who are employed have not seen a raise and another traunch have not seen raises commensurate with inflation. Remember a classic response from economists to people complaining about rising prices is "would you accept the wages from then": a lot of people today respond I have not had a raise since then.
The social Security COLA may accurately reflect *WAGE* inflation, which is lower than price inflation.
yes, the vast majority of Americans have suffered major downscaling of their standards of living in the last 3 or 4 years, partly at least due to no COLAs or ridiculously teenyweeny “COLAs” like the Social Security retirees get from the fake economic index used for them
anyone who votes for a continuation of the Biden/Harris economic (and yes, border) policies is NUTZ! self-destructive or suidical