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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nanny makes a living wage. High school education. My friends mechanic husband makes 6 figures. Trade school. My former cleaning lady ran her own business. high school education. Owned her own home as well.

All in the DC metro area. Folks do even better in the flyover country many of you detest so much.

Not making multiple 6 figures doesn't mean you are scraping by. [/quote]

Okay. How about the millions of folks making 7.25-10 dollars an hour? Not a skilled laborer, small business owner, and established nanny working in a high-HHI area. If you think the people you cite are the rule rather than the exception, you are willfully blinding yourself to the economic reality of many.[/quote]

Btw my point is not to get into a tit-for-tat. We bemoan the fact that degrees are increasingly devalued, yet as a rule the employment options available to those without degrees do not pay well and/or leave little, if any, room for meaningful advancement. If we want to stop "degree creep" we must make employment across the board sustainable for all.[/quote]

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