This sounds like garbage...................
Basic needs today means a 65” flat screen and 2000 channels.
Exactly, where was this bull crap when obozzo was in office for 8 years and the economy was in the crapper? I call bull on this report.
Around Big Dem run cities.
Plus age of population, those 30 and younger won’t stoop to using coupons for groceries, rummage sales for clothes, they have to have the High Cost Name Brands, eat at expensive restaurants. Education is the other factor along with NO willingness to work manual labor if necessary. To many single parent homes.
My dad raised 4 on a Boilermakers pay at a big Steel Mill in East Chicago, IN. We lived in the Burbs in a $18,500 4 bedroom house that didn’t have AC, dishwasher except Mom or me as the eldest. Didn’t run to the doc for sniffles either. 60-80’s. We lived paycheck to paycheck.