{"id":"tp-45950","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Private-Industry Health Benefit Costs Grew More Than Twice as Fast as Wages","author":"John Kim","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/45950","datePublished":"2026-11-01T17:56:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-11-01T17:56:48.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Economist Guy Berger estimated wage growth would have been 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points higher if employer health contributions had risen 3%.","section":"Business","references":[{"title":"quarterly ECI breakdown","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/insights/45162"}]}