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Health care benefits don't help with rising food and housing costs...

• nickff 11y ago
  Could you please provide a citation for the claims that food and housing prices are going up? I looked, but could only find information to the contrary on food (especially as a proportion of household spending), and very short term, noisy, and confusing information on housing (not house prices, but housing).[1] [1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/food.jpg https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/food.jpg
  • toomuchtodo 11y ago
    The cost of food continues to drop, but wages have also been stagnant since the 70's. Housing vs wages: https://makewealthhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/wages-vs-house-prices.jpg https://makewealthhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/wages-...
    • nickff 11y ago
      That data is on house prices, not on cost of housing; do you have any long-term data on cost of housing?
      • toomuchtodo 11y ago
        Worldwide? Nationwide (US)? Major metros? What are we constraining to?
        • nickff 11y ago
          The parent was speaking to US nationwide policies and conditions, so nationwide US data would be most relevant, but I would appreciate any illuminating data, as it appears very hard to support the points I initially responded to.
  • rgbrenner 11y ago
    Data from the BLS: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HtrOZSmjUEM/U2nEwmvNm5I/AAAAAAAABM4/-dJQ9B17hCM/s1600/consumer_spending_1901-2012.png http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HtrOZSmjUEM/U2nEwmvNm5I/AAAAAAAABM...
    • yummyfajitas 11y ago
      Which doesn't address the point at all.