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Originally Posted by Ohio
Looks like your side had a bad day today. They're all so angry.
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It depends where you look. But, yeah. Unemployment numbers are down now. But, there's a difference between long term and short term, and some of those changes in the numbers are short term, but some of the problems that we have are long term.
The costs of housing, child care, health care and college are outpacing salaries and threatening the livelihoods of middle class Americans. Middle class life is now 30 percent more expensive than it was 20 years ago.
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/...t-more-it-used
And we're looking at a record amount of automation of formerly middle-class jobs by 2026, if the World Economic Forum is to be believed. That's one of the threats that is not being accounted for. The future looks bleak for most of today's children.
How many of the people whose job picture looks rosier are working multiple jobs and how much job security do those jobs have? From what I hear, many of the newly employed don't have pensions or any kind of future career trajectory from those jobs.
As long as the big picture in America looks like this you're gonna have a lot of unhappy frustrated people struggling to make ends meet regardless of their political party affiliations.