The 'old American Dream died,' Realtor details salary needed to buy a home, afford a middle class life in 2024
finance.yahoo.com
TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.
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This happened because people were lulled into voting for the very people who gave their fair share of corporate profits to the rich. Looking at you, Republicans, especially Ronald Reagan.
You can argue that Democrats inability to support the working class and unions helped to kill the American dream. “Both sides” are capitalists.
Hell, Clinton essentially adapted Reaganism for the Democratic Party.
I didn’t expect upvotes. It’s an election year for christ sakes.
At least on lemmy, more people understand dems v repubs isn't left v right, it's mid right v far right.
Don't blame me I voted for Kodos
Lemmy is a leftist haven
And they'll do it again.
dude ronald regan gave my family papers my cousins are named ronald and ronny
i am a communist too. sometimes bad people do good things