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So much for trailer trash.
Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can’t Afford Them
While the cost of manufactured homes has surged, pay for the bottom fifth of earners is stagnating. Even after a modest pickup over the past two years, those households have seen their income fall by 9 percent since 2000, to $12,943 in 2016, based on inflation-adjusted Census Bureau data.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-21/mobile-homes-are-so-expensive-now-hurricane-victims-can-t-afford-them
While the cost of manufactured homes has surged, pay for the bottom fifth of earners is stagnating. Even after a modest pickup over the past two years, those households have seen their income fall by 9 percent since 2000, to $12,943 in 2016, based on inflation-adjusted Census Bureau data.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-21/mobile-homes-are-so-expensive-now-hurricane-victims-can-t-afford-them
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What does that have to do with the price of mobile homes?
Not the price, but the fact that more and more people cannot afford them.
Please explain.
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The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class continues to shrink.
Haha- usual liberal BS. The dates stated were from 2000 - 2016. Of that time, 1/2 was under your buddy Obama. Why didn't things get better? Oh yeah, it was Bush's fault.
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Did you think I read that article? About trailers? In Bloomberg?
And yeah, things were going in the correct direction until last November when we drove off a damned cliff.
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Looked at another way...
More of the population in this country is moving into the upper middle class income reaches. The people in this country are getting richer. How is this is bad?
http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-class/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-middle-class-moving-up/2016/06/24/214dc04a-3a28-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?utm_term=.db90094e8f27
Nonetheless, the overall trend is upward: The middle class may be shrinking, but two-thirds of those who leave have moved up, while one-third have dropped to a lower income group.
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/484941939/a-portrait-of-americas-middle-class-by-the-numbers