• eek2121@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is part of the issue. My local grocery store pays $15/hour and mostly hires part time to avoid benefits.

    1 bedroom apartments start at $1,200/mo. Most places require rent to be no more than about 33% of income. Don’t even get me started on gas/car, insurance, utilities, etc.

    There is a huge disconnect.

    The economy is NOT in good shape. It is according to metrics they choose to measure, but jobs that pay a living wage are very hard to come by.

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      10 months ago

      To be fair, it hasn’t been good by THAT standard in decades probably. It just feels worse right now because there was a rise in wages for a bit there that was totally lost to inflation.