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One of the resonant political messages now is that Americans are too poor to afford basic necessities.

• Eddy_Viscosity2 2y ago
  Or rather the cost of basic necessities is (and has been) rising so much faster than income. Education, health care, insurance, housing, are all rising many times faster than 'core' inflation numbers suggest and incomes aren't even rising as fast as cpi.
  • spwa4 2y ago
    That's not different in Europe. Especially housing is a problem. Education is a problem, at much lower prices than in the US, in most places, e.g. Germany. Thankfully not in Belgium, although quality is an issue. I don't know about insurance, but most types of insurance in the US aren't a problem ... because they don't exist except for expats (which means mostly EU employees/politicians). In .be you do not get to go outside of the normal insurance if you're a normal person. Treatments outside of what the country insures are generally not accessible at any price. There was a very famous example of that in the "baby Pia" case. And housing is shooting up. Both rent and prices. From a lower base, sure, but still shooting up and you have to finance it from a much lower salary.
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