If you're in this neighborhood or even just our entire county, if you don't make about 28% more today than you did a few years ago, you're poor. Our wage growth has flatlined, yet we were the epicenter of inflation. So if you want to know why people are cranky, it's because they're poor. I actually believe a conservative, free market, innovative approach is actually what we were as a state for years and we seem to have lost that vision. (14:17–14:23)
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Asserts that wage growth has stagnated while inflation was high in the area.
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