🇺🇸 25% of Americans are “functionally unemployed," per Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity.
And 20% of job seekers have been looking for work for 10 to 12 months or longer.
📝 Functionally unemployed, per Ludwig Institute, includes those without full-time jobs (35+ hrs/week) who want them, the jobless, or earning under $25k/year pre-tax. Their True Rate of Unemployment is 24.3% as of May 2025, vs official 4.2%.
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THE COST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS EXPLODED.
Owning a home.
Buying groceries.
Driving to work.
Paying insurance.
Even your morning coffee.
Nearly every major household expense costs dramatically more than it did just a few years ago.
Over the last 7 years:
• Coffee: +127%
• Home prices: +60%
• Auto insurance: +51%
• Gasoline: +49%
• Electricity: +44%
• Shelter: +35%
• Groceries: +33%
And that's before paying for healthcare, transportation, or eating out.
This is why so many families feel like they're falling behind even when they get a raise.
The biggest financial problem for millions of Americans is that everything is going up at the same time, while the government keeps showing a 2% inflation target.
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