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A Boring Dystopia
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Did you not see the 6% drop in adults that are doing ok financially in the last 2 years?
And yeah asking how people are doing is a bit meh but when they can tell you that people aren't able to afford to see a doctor or dentist in the last couple years that is a much bigger show of a problem.
Yeah, 2022 was a shit show. That’s when all the Covid inflation hit, that ate up the gains in wages at the top of the scale and then some. The fact that even with that having happened, wages at the bottom have been beating inflation by quite a bit, is a damn miracle. But yeah I’m a little surprised it went down by only 6% in 2022.
Health care is a good one yeah - the number of uninsured people has been dropping steadily the last few years, to where now it’s lower than it’s ever been. Enrollment in ACA-sponsored plans shot up when Biden started unfucking some of the things that the Republicans had done to try to kill it. Idk how health care spending looks, but there’s like 20 million people who have health care now who didn’t before, I know.