What has changed in the last 20-30 years so that it now takes two incomes to maintain a household?
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Healthcare costs.
Insurance costs $1,200 a month for my family and only covers 80% of things after $6k deductible. This is the “best” option we are given. Salary is only $50k and is in education with a Master’s degree.
My parents made more income the 1990s and had far less costs for insurance, co-pays etc.
The there are only two new cars priced less than $20k new.
Housing is 4+ times the cost is was 30 years ago.
Capitalism is killing us.
Ronald Reagan is largely responsible for starting the downfall of many economic inequity challenges in the US today.
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