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YvonneCa

(10,117 posts)

4. It's both, high cost of living AND stagnant wages...

Reply to DustyJoe (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 3, 2016, 11:53 AM

Jan 2016

...here in California. Not sure where you live, but here the cost of living has long been a challenge. But due to the 2007-8 crash, that problem was made worse. States like CA pushed out teachers with seniority to save money and furloughed the teachers they kept on staff. That means wages were cut, not just frozen for years.

The last years I was teaching before I retired in 2008, my commute was 70 miles each way. That was to afford to buy a house.