If you believe tweets about the perfect economy, I have a bridge I will sell you.
It’s a profit boom for the wealthy 1 percent, a bust for the 99 percent.
The gap between rich and poor is widening.
Jobs?
There are so many that millions work two and still can’t pay the bills.
The $7.25 federal minimum wage was last increased in 2009.
More than 38 million live in poverty, according to the 2018 U.S. Census.
The official poverty level for a family of two in 2019 is absurdly low, $16,910.
In Clallam County, 17.1 percent are poor, 4 percent higher than the national poverty rate of 13.1 percent, according to the Data USA website (2017).
It means 12,400 of the 73,000 living here are destitute.
Millions live under bridges because rents and mortgages are ruinously high.
Manufacturing is in recession.
GM is closing down plants.
Boeing is cutting back.
Trump’s trade war with China cost farmers billions of dollars in lost markets.
A shocking 44 million are without health insurance and another 38 million have inadequate coverage,a ccoridng to a PBS show.
The percentage losing health coverage is skyrocketing.
A college education is beyond reach for millions and college graduates are saddled with enormous debt.
It is time to turn off the tweets.
Vote in the March 10 Washington primary.
Elect Democrats who will deliver a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, tuition-free college education and a Green New Deal that curbs global climate change and creates millions of union-wage jobs.
Tim Wheeler
Sequim