{"id":515386,"date":"2026-06-24T02:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515386\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:37:37","slug":"inflation-outpaces-us-wages-as-iran-war-drives-up-energy-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515386\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation Outpaces US Wages as Iran War Drives Up Energy Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Whether they work in restaurants, offices or warehouses, Americans have seen their paycheck eaten up by a surge in everyday costs recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Inflation has outstripped wage growth in key private-sector industries for two straight months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The sharp drop in buying power for employees in sectors ranging from healthcare to finance and retail was largely the result of a surge in energy prices driven by the Iran war, but the dynamic is likely to stick even as gasoline gets cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether they work in restaurants, offices or warehouses, Americans have seen their paycheck eaten up by a surge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,4990,113,31537,61,1095,11829,60,150,1674,48747,9115,2521,21509,2286],"class_list":["post-515386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-gas-prices","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-jobs","tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","tag-price-index","tag-real-estate","tag-travel","tag-wage-growth","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}