The pay of the nation's top earners has become the most recent to fall behind inflation.

Part of the problem is that salary increases continue to lag behind inflation, so workers have to run harder each year just to stay even.

In 1989, spending on research and development fell behind inflation for the first time in 14 years.

Before 1978, tuition increases tended to run a percentage point or so behind inflation.

Wages have fallen behind inflation for most people, and employers are forcing workers to pay more of their health care costs.

The unions became bitter because they agreed to wage increases of about 4 percent last year, making them fall behind inflation.

Earnings grew in absolute terms, but at a rate that fell well behind inflation.

Even the average raises for college graduates, who had done so well in the 1990s, fell behind inflation.

After 1970, however, federal funding for the program lagged behind inflation.

In recent months, however, the rate of devaluation has fallen behind inflation.