Another hit

From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 107.1 million full-time wage and salary workers were $719 in the second quarter of 2008. This was 4.2 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 4.4 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.

So, if it feels like you have less lately, that's because you have less lately. I notice that steaks I buy on sale have gone up a dollar a pound on the on-sale price.