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MaryMagdaline

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9. Yes. "Economy" for poor people means only two things
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 07:14 AM
Nov 2024

Wages and living expenses.
Wages have not gone up in any meaningful way in 40 years
Living expenses have gone up astronomically.
That is the economy that poor people mean.
It doesn’t mean anything to poor people that the stock market is at an all time high or that people’s houses are 3 times the value from when they bought them. Poor people have no sticks and they don’t own houses.

The fact that Joe Biden oversaw a perfect landing with low unemployment and reduced inflation, doesn’t reduce their economic strain.
However I’m shocked that Biden didn’t get credit for raising child tax credits and eliminating student loans for millions of people.
Americans without college degrees seemed to resent that more
I’m also shocked that Harris only got 55 per cent of college educated.
Krugman is right about the racial component to this election.

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