Скачать или смотреть The Cost of Living Trap Crushing the Middle Class

Today’s middle class faces a paradox.

In nominal terms, incomes still exist.
In real terms, life has become unaffordable.

The fastest-rising prices are not optional:

housing,

energy,

healthcare,

childcare,

education.

These are fixed costs. You can’t opt out of rent. You can’t substitute healthcare. You can’t delay education indefinitely.

Meanwhile, wages adjust slowly — if they adjust at all.

The result is a cost-of-living trap:
households earn too much to qualify for support,
and too little to build real security.

This is not poverty.
It is precarity.

And precarity quietly erodes confidence, long-term planning, and trust in the future — even when headline employment numbers look strong.