With workforce participation at 40-year lows, “America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is the widest on record,” Pew Research recently reported.
I'm sorry, Aspenhuskerette...this is no personal reflection upon you, but I can't help but notice the utter irony of the above line coming from the ASPEN Times.
"The historic character of the city has been challenged in recent decades by skyrocketing property values and the proliferation of second homes, increasingly shutting low- and middle-income workers out of the city and creating a large pool of commuters from nearby bedroom communities such as Snowmass, Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs....Aspen is the most expensive place to buy real estate in the US.[8] Aspen is a mixture of high-end luxury estates and condos intermixed with single-family homes and mobile home parks. As of March 2011, the lowest-priced single-family home on the market was a trailer for $559,000.[9] The median listing price for homes or condos for sale in Aspen is $4,570,633 according to Trulia.[10] It is not uncommon to see listing prices reaching the mid-eight figures.[10]
Source: Aspen, Colorado
An "average" small home in Aspen can sell for $6 million easy these days!
But they CARE about fairness - and isn’t THAT what really matters?
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