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Florida Chamber CEO Mark Wilson explains how rising municipal budgets and tax burdens in blue states ultimately hit middle-class tradespeople like welders, electricians and nurses.
‘Housing, childcare, and groceries have all gotten so expensive that starting a family now looks like a financial risk’
Corporate profits are at a record high as worker paychecks wilt, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Katy Tur to discuss the growing wealth gap in America.
First off, I don’t really know a lot about the guy who tossed out this asinine opinion.
Could it be what he really believes? Rage bait for X? It’s hard to say. In any case, I’ve seen the same thing said by enough economically illiterate people/socialists (but, I repeat myself) that it’s worth addressing: So, in order to answer the question properly, we should start by noting that working at McDonald’s is an entry-level job. It’s generally thought of as a place for high school students and people with minimal experience to learn the basics of work. This seems to fit fairly well with their workforce since, per an article about fast food workers in general (not just McDonald’s), about 30% of fast-food employees are teens and another 30.7% are 20-24. Although by some estimates, as few as 1-5% of McDonald’s workers…Open
LoC By Holly Jean Soto Young New Yorkers deserve affordable housing. But they'll never get there through policies that create even more scarcity.
‘It wasn’t the middle class that broke the social contract’
We need to do something to bridge the gap back to the American dream for college grads.
World War II proves the government can intervene directly to fix the housing crisis.
Stephanie Ruhle breaks down a new report totaling the millionaires and billionaires in Trump’s administration — and asks the question: what could their influence mean for the middle-class Americans whose interests Trump said he would represent?
You are not a socialist for noticing that young people and families are being priced out of the economy in large parts of America, and you are not a socialist for wanting to fix these problems.