Obviously, the classic story, you can buy snowmobile, you can buy a pickup truck, you could have a cabin, you could save for college if that was the path, you could have some vacation time. That ability, that level of income, even adjusted for inflation, that's just gone. You look at how much expensive healthcare is, you look at childcare, you look at housing. They have not been going up at 2% a year, especially over the past 20 years. (12:51–12:57)
CLAIM
Asserts that the financial stability provided by factory jobs in the past is no longer available.
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