India’s cost of living has risen 58% in a decade. 5 charts show why it’s not 58% for everyone
Can every worker afford the economy that they keep running?
In the past 10 years, the usual day to day things you spend money on — your food, your coffee, your shoes, your medicines, your cab rides, your rent, all of it — got 58% more expensive.
It wouldn’t be upsetting if your pay rose faster, or at least in step with, this 58% rise in prices. That’s basic math. But it’s also basic math that averages can flatten out the inequities of life. Make them invisible.
It wouldn’t be upsetting if your pay rose faster, or at least in step with, this 58% rise in prices. That’s basic math. But it’s also basic math that averages can flatten out the inequities of life. Make them invisible.