What has changed in the last 20-30 years so that it now takes two incomes to maintain a household?

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What has changed in the last 20-30 years so that it now takes two incomes to maintain a household?

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That didn’t happen in the last 20-30 years…it happened 40-50 years ago.

By the 1980s, dual-income families with both parents working was prevalent.

The notion that I keep seeing on reddit that “before 1990, a high school graduate could support a family on a single income” is nostalgic bullshit.

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