September 5, 2017 By: Shawn Langlois
For much of this country’s working class, the American Dream is dead. In case you didn’t already know that, cost-estimating website HowMuch.net created a grim map that tells the sad tale.
The Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground as Lower Manhattan is viewed at dusk.
In the chart below, each bubble represents a city. The color corresponds to the amount of money the average American family has left over at the end of the year after paying for their living costs, like housing, food and transportation. The darker the shade of red, the worse off you are. The greener, the better. The bubble size also fits a sliding scale.
There's a lot of red on that map..............Read More
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