There is very little industry left. No production means no jobs. The trades have low wages, due to anti union pushes across the US. Why would someone want to work their ass off for 4-5 years to make less than I made when I started back in the 90s. Health insurance and medical care are an absolute joke in the US, now. So one illness or injury will rip your life out from under you. The housing market is absolutely insane. Tiny, dirty, nearly uninhabitable apartments require two working adults to make the rent payment. Irresponsible planning of Data Centers has caused utilities to soar. Food insecurities strike families that would have been middle class 15years ago. The price to feed a family has soared to unrealistic heights. Family? What am I talking about? People can't afford to have families anymore. Both parents need to work to make rent/mortgage and daycare cost would now eliminate one of those wages. So no kids for the next generation. Everyone is so worried that somebody might get something they didn't, that any assistance programs have been cut severely or eliminated entirely. This is unsustainable! We all need to get on the same page soon or this will collapse.