i_give_u_worms
If the husband could get a steady job, families used to be able to afford a house on the husband's income in the suburbs, that would have been the standard expectation, the average. Also, what is a steno pool?
Families with one income can't buy a house when the market is all two income families, the houses are all way overpriced where I am, but it's also a place where jobs haven't vanished like a tide that went out.
Nicole Parsons
@i_give_u_worms @CassandraVert
In the USA, health insurance chained workers to jobs they hated.
Health benefits functions as a mechanism to suppress wage growth.
During the Great Resignation, many serfs were freed from these manacles and signed up for the ACA which allows workers to move to better paying jobs.
It allows job mobility & rising wage demands.
No wonder Republican megadonors hate the ACA.
https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-great-resignation-didnt-start-with-the-pandemic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation
https://www.investopedia.com/the-great-resignation-5199074
i_give_u_worms
@CassandraVert @Npars01
Tack on the incentive of businesses to stratify full.time to top shelf because full time has to bear entire burden of exorbitant health insurance and whatever I thought the job market is, is a big sugar cube that is getting pissed on.
i_give_u_worms
As for "Where the jobs went" there are a lot of janitorial and trade jobs in this area where wages are artificially low because the county has villainized people coming into the country and not employers who specifically hire them. The lack of respect for the people in those jobs just compounds the unrealistically low wages in those jobs that used to be something people could work full time at and have something to live on.
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