text:  Just now for the past year, their wages have been growing faster than inflation. But it's taking it takes a little while for that to really sink in that. OK, you know, I felt like I had to hunker down, especially COVID hit and then my inflation hit. And they're just now sensing that perhaps their incomes are and they really are doing better. And I in that there's this this lag effect that I think is also going to be important to for people to understand how they're actually doing financially.