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Homelessness In The U.S. Is Up 48 Percent Since 2015, And Americans Are Being Laid Off In Droves…
Economic Collapse Blog ^ | 1/29/24 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 02/01/2024 7:06:46 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

How can anyone out there possibly believe that the U.S. economy is doing well? As you will see below, the number of homeless Americans has risen to the highest level ever recorded, and large companies all over the country are laying off workers in droves. As I have discussed previously, the number of Americans that were laid off in 2023 jumped 98 percent compared to the year before, and now during the first month of 2024 it feels like we are being hit by a tsunami of layoffs. It literally seems like someone has turned a fire hose on, but the Biden administration continues to insist that unemployment is “low” and that the outlook for the U.S. economy is positive.

Honestly, I don’t understand how the Biden administration can say that the outlook for the U.S. economy is positive when the number of Americans that are homeless has been increasing at the fastest pace ever recorded. According to a brand new report that was just released by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the number of homeless Americas has increased 48 percent since 2015…

According to a Jan. 25 report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023, up roughly 12% from the same time a year prior and 48% from 2015. That marks the largest single-year increase in the country’s unhoused population on record, Harvard researchers said.

Homelessness, long a problem in states such as California and Washington, has also increased in historically more affordable parts of the U.S.. Arizona, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas have seen the largest growths in their unsheltered populations due to rising local housing costs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: economy; homelessness; layoffs; recession

1 posted on 02/01/2024 7:06:46 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Normal so far. Companies getting rid of the excess.


2 posted on 02/01/2024 7:19:14 PM PST by Theoria
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To: All

They misspelled hopelessness in the title.


3 posted on 02/01/2024 7:19:58 PM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The Democrats don’t care when people lose their jobs. They ultimately do not care whether those out of work are migrants or citizens. They have a vested interest in having a large number of people depending on the government for handouts. Those people are assumed to be Democrat voters.


4 posted on 02/01/2024 7:26:41 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: BipolarBob

My take for what it’s worth: the uniparty keeps screwing with corp tax structure and not incentivizing on-shore development of production facilities. Not only does that make US reliant on goods from over seas but also reduces the need for US workers. That coupled wit the current administration’s America last energy policies is gonna kill the economy.

End of rant


5 posted on 02/01/2024 7:30:25 PM PST by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Reminds me — I haven’t seen or heard a word about the numbers of people on food stamps for a long time. Wonder why.


6 posted on 02/01/2024 7:33:28 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: john316

I can’t argue against that. It’s what we see is going on everyday.


7 posted on 02/01/2024 7:43:16 PM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: BipolarBob

I work for a large IT services company and we generally use 90/10 ratio of offshore v on shore resources. Really chaps my @&& every time o have tell someone their position has been “migrated”.


8 posted on 02/01/2024 7:52:15 PM PST by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: john316

It chaps me when I have to try to understand a thick India accent when they are trying to explain something to me.


9 posted on 02/01/2024 7:53:55 PM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Marijuana


10 posted on 02/01/2024 9:04:38 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Theoria

bkmk


11 posted on 02/02/2024 6:57:22 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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