Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by autoexec on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:24PM (#42323870)

It doesn't matter how many sunny stats people throw around the reality is visible on the ground. Homelessness has soared over the last 10 years and is at record breaking highs. Utility disconnections for non-payment have gone up significantly in the last decade as well. Even clean healthy tap water is unavailable to hundreds of millions of Americans and that's only counting the heavy metals, not PFAS.

People are struggling in ways their parents and grandparents never had to, and they often feel they are unable to obtain the same standard of living. Healthcare spending has gone way up too as prices keep going up at a rate above inflation and more people having been getting sicker.

There's a very real reason for the disconnect between the "soaring economy" and how the majority are feeling about it.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by lovich on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:25AM (#42325832)

>hundreds of millions of Americans

Given that only two hundred million Americans would be more than half, I’d need to see some data that the majority of the US doesn’t have access to clean drinking water.

Are there parts that don’t or even a disturbingly high percentage, I could believe, but the majority of Americans not having clean drinking water is a high claim

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by autoexec on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:15PM (#42330190)

Here's one: https://abcnews.go.com/US/tap-water-millions-americans-erin-...

For lead alone there's a lot of variation in how many homes are impacted. The white house recently said 10 million are connected to lead service lines (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...)

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