Showing posts with label Affordability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affordability. Show all posts
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Trump gaslights America about affordability in last night's speech, says it only became an issue during the Biden administration

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 I've been talking about affordability until I'm blue in the face right here ever since the Great Recession wrecked America and Obam...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Trump is a con job of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires

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 'Affordability is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump says You need to earn $158,000/year [2.6x = 410,800] for the median home in th...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Gang of eight Democrats in the U.S. Senate join Republicans to end the longest federal government shutdown in history

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) Sen. Angus King (I-ME) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Se...
Friday, November 7, 2025

McDonald's reports quick-service restaurant traffic down nearly double digits in 3Q for lower income consumers, up nearly double digits for higher income consumers

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 But overall guest counts were contracting at McDonald's, which must mean the lower income traffic drop overwhelmed the increase from hi...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Housing affordability is up for a second year in a row in 2024, which is better than a sharp stick in the eye

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 Housing affordability hit a record low 17.22% in 2022. That is to say, median household income bought 17.22% of the median sales price of a...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Unaffordable Care Act to become more unaffordable for millions in 2026 due to Trump's reconciliation bill, just in time for the election

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   Why 22 million people may see ‘sharp’ increase in health insurance premiums in 2026 ... More than 22 million people — about 92% of ACA en...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

In 2023 housing affordability in the United States bounced off the 2022 low but is still 9.15 points off the more affordable levels of the 1980s

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 The median income in 2022 bought just 17.22% of the median house, the all-time low in the most up-to-date data. In 2023 that rose to 18.89%...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

House Republican Chip Roy (TX-21) says the current policy baseline tax assumption of Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho is a load of crap

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Chip Roy is right. The expiring temporary tax cuts of Donald Trump had a cost in 2017, and if renewed they'll still have a cost, which i...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Joe Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is married to this woman, Maggie Goodlander, who is running for the US House in New Hampshire District 2, except she doesn't really live in it

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Goodlander's home is currently out of district in Portsmouth and she is worth a lot of money , with median estimated assets of $24 milli...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Trump has been moving left on abortion, adding insult to injury with a commitment to another federal mandate

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 In August, Trump reiterated his opposition to Florida’s ban on abortions after six weeks. Asked if he supported an amendment to the state’...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Kamala Harris' cloud cuckoo land climate plan when she ran for president in 2019 would cost only $10 trillion in the first ten years, would end all gasoline cars by 2035, penalize oil and gas companies just for existing

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https://web.archive.org/web/20191203230607/https:/kamalaharris.org/policies/climate/full-policy/ : ...