REPORT: Americans DROWNING In Healthcare, Housing Costs | Counter Points

More and more, families with 6 figure incomes are having a hard time making ends meet. All that mean is that their ends are too far apart.

Why are you talking about what the "right" is going to do about rising costs. The "left" is and has been running the country. What is Biden and his handlers going to do about it?

I wonder if removing 5 million people who are illegally in the country would reduce the cost of rent and housing?

Well I guess I'm glad they are showing the results of what conservatives did.

20 years ago at Wendy’s? 5 bucks went a lot further

THEY ARE LOOKING FOR HOW TO ARGUE "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY" If right wing think tanks spend as much time trying to solve real problems like this, rather than create pseudo scientific arguments against climate change or anything that might actually help average Americans. I am sure that soon we will hear about this index in context of how "nobody wants to work" or more likely we won't hear much about it and this index will be buried as it only proves that greed at the top is responsible for current situation. Wages didn't stagnate, the portion of generated wealth with increased productivity that should have gone to the workers in form of wage increases, was TAKEN by the management and CEOs and redirected upwards into profits and distributed to shareholder in form of dividends and obscene stock buybacks, and of course to themselves in form of bonuses and windfall profits from stock options.

You get what you vote for in this country. The liberals were extremely clear what their goals are….social ideals…The economy is not one of those things.

I have no problem because I didn't sucked in to the over priced indoctrination camps

is Emily hot?

They haven’t failed to put their finger on this. The govt has changed the calculation of consumer price index (CPI) multiple times since it’s inception, each time it “just so happens” that inflation is at a lower number. Just go look at the charts on shadowstats of 1980 and 1990 method CPIs

Lmao. This is news to people?

Imagine helping Joe get into office then pretend you had nothing to do with it. 40 million in the bank ? Ok smash the poor. BREAKING POINTS

Where’s Ryan do his grocery shopping. Food prices are similar. My mother used to have a shopping cart overwhelmed with food for what I carry out within a couple bags today.

In the Northeast:
A decent house in a safe zip code costs $600k+
Electricity, water, heat, etc. will cost $250+ month
A healthy week's worth of groceries for two people costs $250+
A reliable car costs $20k+
Health care costs and obligations will eat 15%+ of your income
Federal, state, and local taxes will eat 25%+ of your income without providing anything of use.

A couple needs $125,000+ per year to enjoy basic middle class securities, and that's before having children.

Don’t worry Ryan will tell you to
Keep voting democrat
Even though time and time again
Democrats haven’t done a damn thing

Anyone who still votes democrat or republican are idiotts

Especially, if you have something to lose. Being middle class in today's economy is like being stranded on a slippery sea cliff with oblivion napping at your heels knowing the tide will be coming in above your knees.

The republicans leading a populist movement is a joke on the working class within the party. Working class republicans are useful idiots voting against their own best interest. Working class democrats are no different. White collar or blue collar makes no difference. The welfare class living off money at the top of the social pyramid are the only ones that matter. If money is free speech, then bribery is legal.

I see some possibility for improvement in rising interest rates. We need to bring back savings and loans so that the welfare recipients at the top of the social pyramid are not the only ones benefiting from the relative safety of high interest rates. If mortgage interest rates go somewhere near 12% and 22% and interest rates on passbook accounts are below inflation, then there will be food riots on the streets.

Healthcare costs are insane. I pay $2000/m for my family (2 adults, 2 kids). None of us have serious health issues.

the CPI is a way for the government to pss down our backs and tell us it's raining.

Here, city of 100,000 in Western Washington: $1900 in rent for 2 bdr. apartment & $500 premiums for health coverage for wife and I (with a $1500 deductible on top of that). It bites.

jashinsky sure looks different broadcasting from home ....

when the CPI doesn't account for food & rent it's basically a worthless metric ..

Free market did get us inflation, government spending for things America cannot afford for 100 years did. The difference now is we've reached the end where the devaluation rate increases exponentially at a rate everyone sees. Buckle up because the dollar is going to zero, hyper inflation, and the savior for the world is the Bitcoin standard.

I have a Masters in Social work and am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I live lower means than my dad who was a union electrician in the 90's...

There is no correlation between raising interest rates and bringing inflation down

stay home save lives

Anyone else see how large of an increase health care was in that graph?

Ryan is totally wrong! Food cost has doubled If not TRIPLED! What is he even talking about ?!

Electronic costs went down because of globalization. Healthcare, Housing, Education, and to some extent Food can’t be globalized… it’s not like you can manufacture a house cheaply and ship it to the US from China, for example.

Cover trap training contracts they are ruining people's life and people are not getting training.

Very "Two Parent Income Trap" vibes. Oren Cass and Elizabeth Warren should sit down and have a conversation.

Ryan grim still thinks Bernie is a good guy haha Bernie hasn't done jack shit all talk, no action

Counter Points needs their own outro

Its all synthetic and build on lies and greed. Show me where such foundation flourishes. It doesnt. It crumbles.

this dude is ill informed. food has gone up 9.9%. does he not shop, have his wife shop for him, or does he live with his mother? this is not someone suffering.

The "safety net" is designed to punish those who don't "produce" enough for the American system. If you land in it, you're supposed to be sufficiently terrified to get out any way possible. Kind of a lousy way to run your society.

I love you Americans. But, man! We have to revolt against Wallstreet and D.C.. Please, wake up and fight back. Unionization is a great way to start.

Please get rid of Grimm

did he really say, "food prices have stayed the same"!? Only someone who doesn't need to have a food budget could be so out of touch. wow

Build more houses add price controls higher wages and limit the number single-family houses any person or corporation can own.

But all that "pandemic relief" funding pushed the US into inflation, cause average Americans went out and partied and bought yachts, right?

I don't know when the last time you bought fast food was, Ryan, but it's about $12 for a combo meal now.

You could get a decent actual meal at a chain sit down restaurant for that just a cpl of years ago.

America is dead, this is a country for the 1%, just waiting for my fellow peasants to whip out the torches and pitchforks

Social safety nets don't catch people and bounce them backup into the economy they catch people and then for generations they stay in the net.

Wendy's is twice as expensive as it was 20 years ago.

Everything the government controls is going through the roof everything the government doesn't control is super low.

The price of college wasn't the problem until the democrats tried to pay people further votes again and then it backfired now they want to blame somebody else for the problem they want to expand the program which will only make the problem worse.

Fixing the economy is super easy. Get the government out of it.

Worse than that the boomer and gen x-ers are STILL living in that reality. The economic gains made easily in their lifetime mean they are completely out of touch with the economy of today and reality for younger generations. I know because I talk to them and they are absolutely infuriating. They had it SO EASY and yet are SO selfish and vote so horribly.

Nearly everyone with a mortgage is seeing their payments go up by $150-300 a month as their escrow payments go up this year. Homeowners insurance have gone up significantly as price to replace the home has increased by 30% or more. Plus as property values went up, so did property taxes. Double whammy for all homeowners.