From Affordable Homes to Unreachable Dreams Do you remember when a decent house didn’t cost more than a lifetime’s worth of debt? I do. I bought my first home for less than fifty grand in the early 1980s. Try finding a broom closet for that today. The median home price in the United States just crossed $500,000, and that’s not in Manhattan — that’s nationwide. Health insurance? Up. Food? Up. Utilities? Way up. Meanwhile, wages stagnate, savings dwindle, and a growing number of Americans are being forced to skip meals just to keep the lights on. Let’s not sugarcoat it: the American standard of living is collapsing — fast — and no one in power is lifting a damn finger…
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