“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

  • @[email protected]
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    39 months ago

    What i am saying is thay it currently costs X to actually live in my low cost of living area, but most jobs around here only pay around .8X instead. No amount of budgeting and cutting out frivolous expenditures is able to buget you out of inflation

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        19 months ago

        If you think small toen rust belt is untenable, then the country is fucked and not worth saving

        • FaceDeer
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          19 months ago

          Small towns in the rust belt are not the entirety of the United States. Different people value different parts of it in different ways, just because the part of it that you like isn’t doing well doesn’t mean it has no value to anyone else.

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            19 months ago

            I work two jobs, one of which is a union manufacturing job. If that isn’t enough to live in a low COLA area then we’re cooked. That’s the point i am making.