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Health care benefits don't help with rising food and housing costs...


Could you please provide a citation for the claims that food and housing prices are going up? I looked, but could only find information to the contrary on food (especially as a proportion of household spending), and very short term, noisy, and confusing information on housing (not house prices, but housing).[1]

[1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/food.jpg


The cost of food continues to drop, but wages have also been stagnant since the 70's.

Housing vs wages: https://makewealthhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/wages-...


That data is on house prices, not on cost of housing; do you have any long-term data on cost of housing?


Worldwide? Nationwide (US)? Major metros? What are we constraining to?


The parent was speaking to US nationwide policies and conditions, so nationwide US data would be most relevant, but I would appreciate any illuminating data, as it appears very hard to support the points I initially responded to.



Which doesn't address the point at all.




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