They don’t even count food in when they concoct those inflation figures. Some foods have increased in price by more than a hundred percent over the last ten years.
I’m on a fixed income. Well, not fixed, but shrinking. My SIL, who is an LEO, makes the same money I do. In terms of purchasing power, wages are *way* down.
We are all on a fixed income. I get what my boss says I get and no more.