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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My wife is a teacher, so we use her healthcare, but I still peek in at the healthcare at my job when enrollment comes along, just to be diligent.

It went up 20% this year, from $600 to $720. If you make $30K a year and got a 3% cost of living adjustment, you make less this year than last year from healthcare alone.

Food, gas, rent, cars, childcare, utilities, everything is up. I guess it's cool that US steel or something might be doing well, and the stock market is up, but that minimally affects the day to day of most people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 41 minutes ago

And yet every newscast has a stock ticker. Even NPR gives the stock index ratings several times a day.