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Why Your Paycheck Buys Less Every Year
In this episode, Lucas and Luna tackle a stealthy threat to your finances: bracket creep. With inflation pushing nominal wages higher, workers are getting shoved into higher tax brackets without any real gain in purchasing power. Lucas explains how this happened to a software engineer in Austin, Texas, who got a 4% raise but saw her real after-tax income fall. They break down how the federal income tax brackets are adjusted for inflation — and why the adjustment is based on a lagging CPI measure that doesn't fully capture rent and healthcare spikes. Using recent CPI data (April 2026…
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