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Re:Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Hou... by hpoe on Friday August 20, 2021 @01:27PM (#28248790)
Incidentally also the three areas where the government is most directly pouring money into, via FHA/USDA loans, Medicare/Meidcade, and Pell Grants and Loans respectively.
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Re:Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Hou... by someguydave on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:34PM (#28252154)
Those sectors (except construction) are also very well defended by interest groups against foreign workers in the usa.

It’s okay to hire an Indian fresh off the boat (with a visa) to code at Facebook (probably after an older or more expensive domestic worker is unhired) without a license but it is unthinkable that say public school teachers face the same competition.

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