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Work, Work, Work
Work, Work, Work
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Jordan and I discuss the difficulties of societal expectations and how they’re tied to work and debt. This was recorded before Covid-19 spread in the United States.
“The price tags for tuition and fees at colleges and universities have risen twice as fast as wages, if not more, in recent years. Rental costs are outpacing wage gains by a percentage point or more a year. Health-care costs have grown twice as fast as workers’ wages. And child-care costs have exploded. These cost pressures are particularly acute on young Americans who have seen worse employment prospects and smaller raises than their older counterparts.”
Lowrey, Annie. (2020, February) The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America
In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/great-affordability-crisis-breaking-america/606046/?fbclid=IwAR1dwzPLRY4QBVCBdfPW-K2lXMPCPK7ykuSBOsqlHT49uUuYCC-hjKVgBJ4
The Reality Of It Is with Pants Optional
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Work, Work, Work
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Jordan and I discuss the difficulties of societal expectations and how they’re tied to work and debt. This was recorded before Covid-19 spread in the United States.
“The price tags for tuition and fees at colleges and universities have risen twice as fast as wages, if not more, in recent years. Rental costs are outpacing wage gains by a percentage point or more a year. Health-care costs have grown twice as fast as workers’ wages. And child-care costs have exploded. These cost pressures are particularly acute on young Americans who have seen worse employment prospects and smaller raises than their older counterparts.”
Lowrey, Annie. (2020, February) The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America
In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/great-affordability-crisis-breaking-america/606046/?fbclid=IwAR1dwzPLRY4QBVCBdfPW-K2lXMPCPK7ykuSBOsqlHT49uUuYCC-hjKVgBJ4
The Reality Of It Is with Pants Optional
PantsOptional.Co