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Young voters ditched Trump. What's next could be more extreme (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

I guess more accurately, before the Vietnam war, young men who graduated college (or at least finished high school) could rent a family sized apartment and feed a family of five.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    In 1960, minimum wage was was $1.00/hour and the average house was $11,000.00

    A good Union job, in the $2.00 range, could easily afford to buy a house and have a few luxuries. Stay-at-home moms were pretty much the rule until the 1970s, when inflation and the Arab Oil Crisis double whammy made a lot of them need to get jobs.

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