This is true in literally every state.
State? True all over the world.
Welcome the the USA the worlds greatest 3rd world country.
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NO. FUCKING. SHIT! This is the case EVERYWHERE and it keeps getting worse. I guess I’m glad to finally see articles saying it straight up instead of “hmmm millennials and gen z aren’t buying as much stuff, it’s a mysteryyyy”
I guess we have to lower the cost of living. We can start with rental property caps, and regulated food prices.
Feels like wages are always where the inflation buck stops.
“Nearly 6 in 10 low wage workers are Latino, and about half of those are immigrants. Most low wage workers live with at least one other worker and have no young children.”
There’s the problem right there. Your average (racist) American will look at that stat and go “So?”
Still, two people living together, each making $16 an hour, with no childcare to speak of… that sounds possible except in California.
$32 * 40 = $1,280 a week. * 52 = $66,560 a year.
You aren’t making it alone on 1/2 that, but combined seems plausible.
Vote 3rd party and end this ponzi scheme of a gov.
End Capitalism Before it Ends Us
Yeah, a Trump presidency will totally fix this.
I agree that it’s dumb to vote their party in the presidential election and think that will change things. But the presidential election is not the only election. You have local ones that you have a much greater say in, have much more potential influence over, and where you can start to make a difference and where working to get a third party in (or better yet, change the voting system to make it not tend towards two parties) is your best bet, and the poster has a point.
Needs a big fuckin’ asterisk, though.
You’re not wrong but now isn’t the time
You’re watching them shit on your country with the mindset of “no don’t worry, NEXT 4 years for sure this time”
Wake tf up and do something about it. 3rd party in 2024 or you’re stuck w/ the motherfucking orange fuhrer
Yea vote 3rd party that always works /s
You’ve spent your entire life believing in the idea that there are only 2 options.
Since grade school, you were propagandized into picking the better of two evils (who always, ALWAYS, favor the MIC).
There is a big enough movement (from not only lefties, but also people who do not like Trump) to win a 3rd party seat and implement ranked-choice voting going forward.
If you think we get ranked choice with a D or an R candidate, you are sorely mistaken, and THATS the point.
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Who is your third party star ? And a source? You’re not trying to manipulate people into throwing away their vote are you?
Edit: Typical, lying, deceitful trumpers
It’s almost as if people pointed out that raising the minimum wage will result in higher costs for everything and thus raising the cost of living.
Hey you get a hundred more bucks a week? Guess what your rents going up fifry dollars a week.
Sounds great but groceries rise cost twenty more a month because they are paying their people more. Gas goes up… And everything else costs “just a bit more” because of rising costs for the new minimum wage.
Maybe the solution isn’t to get more money but stop acting like everyone who decides to move to California deserves a charmed life. In the supply and demand metric for jobs California seems to be fine with increasing the supply of workers with out realizing that has caused most of the problems we have. Sorry but just like the game industry until people stop wanting to come out to California with out a job lined up ultimately there’s going to be problem.
Btw I’m definitely not talking about immigration with this I’m talking about someone from Kansas deciding to come out to California for what ever reason, something not working and then bitching that they can’t stay here on a minimum wage salary and afford a single room apartment.
Maybe if that’s the case going back to Kansas which has a better cost of living is a better choice than trying to live in a city or state with the highest cost of living?
Not everyone has to leave to fix this but until at least some people leave the scale will continue to tip against everyone in the state because the surplus of people only raise the supply on people looking for jobs, raise the demand on housing which increase rent and this will continue until this idea that there’s a guaranteed perfect Californian life exists for anyone who comes out here is dead
