I mean, did anything else happen in 2020-2021 that might have caused a paradigm shift in how people evaluate their satisfaction with current economic conditions?

It would be helpful to present union wages in cumulative terms relative to inflation and nonunion wages, to emphasize the need to catch up as well as get ahead

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