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usa: 50% of 25 year olds living at home w/ parents, 30% of 30 year olds are living at home w parents
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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2205122" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>this is his newest article by coincidence.</p><p></p><p>"Rent strips you of half your income—one in four families spend 70 percent of their income on rent...<a href="http://www.americaspower.org/sites/default/files/Energy_Cost_Impacts_2012_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">fuel and utility rates </a>have risen by more than 50 percent since 2000..One in eight renting families in the United States was unable to meet rent payments in 2013...</p><p></p><p>We get the New Deal. A few decades later we get neoliberalism. Up and down we go on the capitalist seesaw. It is a long and honored tactic of the capitalist class—concessions in times of unrest and then reversals—one amply illustrated by the labor history of the United States and illuminated by revolutionary theorists such as <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_speaks_on_rosa_luxemburgs_legacy_video_20160528" target="_blank">Rosa Luxemburg</a>.</p><p></p><p>many housing courts around the country 90 percent of landlords are represented by attorneys, and 90 percent of tenants are not...And as long as the debt goes unpaid, the slumlord can slap on a 12 percent interest rate.</p><p></p><p>The string of evictions and length of the waiting list—3,500 names—means Belle and her boys will never receive housing assistance. Three-quarters of families that qualify for housing assistance nationally never obtain it." - chris hedges</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2205122, member: 56035"] this is his newest article by coincidence. "Rent strips you of half your income—one in four families spend 70 percent of their income on rent...[URL='http://www.americaspower.org/sites/default/files/Energy_Cost_Impacts_2012_FINAL.pdf']fuel and utility rates [/URL]have risen by more than 50 percent since 2000..One in eight renting families in the United States was unable to meet rent payments in 2013... We get the New Deal. A few decades later we get neoliberalism. Up and down we go on the capitalist seesaw. It is a long and honored tactic of the capitalist class—concessions in times of unrest and then reversals—one amply illustrated by the labor history of the United States and illuminated by revolutionary theorists such as [URL='http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_speaks_on_rosa_luxemburgs_legacy_video_20160528']Rosa Luxemburg[/URL]. many housing courts around the country 90 percent of landlords are represented by attorneys, and 90 percent of tenants are not...And as long as the debt goes unpaid, the slumlord can slap on a 12 percent interest rate. The string of evictions and length of the waiting list—3,500 names—means Belle and her boys will never receive housing assistance. Three-quarters of families that qualify for housing assistance nationally never obtain it." - chris hedges [/QUOTE]
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