The inflation-adjusted median income of U.S. households rebounded last year to roughly its 2019 level, overcoming the biggest price spike in four decades to restore most Americans’ purchasing power.
“We are back to that pre-COVID peak that we experienced,” said Liana Fox, assistant division chief in the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division at the Census Bureau.
Funny, there were poor and desperate people lining my cities streets before COVID and it just got worse post-COVID.
We’re doing fuck all for American citizens and then absolutely crowing when we’re barely scraping back to where we were, and where we were wasn’t that fucking great to begin with.
Pre-COVID US had just as many broken and desperate people, had just as many people who couldn’t actually afford to live in the city they actually worked in, and essentially had an underclass of “working homeless.” But I guess getting back to the same level of working homeless is something to celebrate!!
So shout from the rooftops everybody, we’re back to that weak ass bullshit of a point! Rejoice, our economy is doing good enough that the middle class people can turn up their noses and ignore everyone our economy hurts!
Yeah, I couldn’t believe the ridiculous narrative either. After the reading the article though, it at least makes some sense for me as a Mexican-American dude. It’s mainly white people doing better and I guess that totally tracks (also helps explains why so many people here are ready to believe it). I honestly sometimes forget to remind myself “American” hardly ever means all Americans
That said, it’s wild how little discussion there is on this here and how any mention of frustration with the accepted narrative results in others thinking you’re just a bitter idiot, or something
Funny, there were poor and desperate people lining my cities streets before COVID and it just got worse post-COVID.
We’re doing fuck all for American citizens and then absolutely crowing when we’re barely scraping back to where we were, and where we were wasn’t that fucking great to begin with.
Pre-COVID US had just as many broken and desperate people, had just as many people who couldn’t actually afford to live in the city they actually worked in, and essentially had an underclass of “working homeless.” But I guess getting back to the same level of working homeless is something to celebrate!!
So shout from the rooftops everybody, we’re back to that weak ass bullshit of a point! Rejoice, our economy is doing good enough that the middle class people can turn up their noses and ignore everyone our economy hurts!
Yeah, I couldn’t believe the ridiculous narrative either. After the reading the article though, it at least makes some sense for me as a Mexican-American dude. It’s mainly white people doing better and I guess that totally tracks (also helps explains why so many people here are ready to believe it). I honestly sometimes forget to remind myself “American” hardly ever means all Americans
That said, it’s wild how little discussion there is on this here and how any mention of frustration with the accepted narrative results in others thinking you’re just a bitter idiot, or something
Sometimes I wonder when the revolution will happen.
It’s going to be some really dumb shit that breaks this camel’s back because all the important stuff is already happening.