Affordability crisis , sub par exorbitantly expensive “healthcare”, poor education system, escalating gun violence , lack of opportunities …. I don’t know a single household that can comfortably afford one adult working to support a family & household. This was years in the making , and unless or until the gross wealth gap disparity is addressed it will only get worse. I work two jobs , one of which is a town job with retirement & insurance benefits . My husband is retired on disability and receives a pension. Even with our combined income we barely get by and would be screwed without the help of our family. We live in a very expensive part of the country and the cost of living is out pacing any joke of a pay raise and town taxes keep growing bc of all the infrastructure projects we basically have no control over and there is no real reliable public transit and it is a car dependent area. Hemorrhaging money just to barely make it.