Americans are getting smaller pay raises while tariffs and higher gas prices are threatening to make everything more expensive. Translation: The affordability problem isn’t improving. New government data released Friday showed non-supervisory workers getting a 3.4% pay raise on average hourly earnings over the last year. That’s the slowest pace of wage gains since 2021, and a downshift from the last two years, when pay bumps were closer to 4%. The slowdown comes as economists worry about rising