Every time I see these reports, I think of how Porky doesn't seem interested in hiring fucking anyone for the supposedly open jerbs that already existed. This shit is nothing more than porn for shareholders and investors.
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That sort of data might be found over at /r/FuckYourHeadlights on the Other Site. So many people are fed up with these eye damaging laser headlights they've made a subreddit for it, there is even an organized group with their own website trying to push back against this unrestrained bullshit.
Someone there did a controlled study on a selection of newer cars and posted their findings. The two pinned posts may already have the exact data you're interested in.
Add on-campus housing and food plan and it's another $8-15k per year on top of that for in-state, maybe more now. And that covers the two main semesters only, summer and winter sessions have their own extra costs.
I was just reading that story before I typed that, like yeah 50k more workers getting thrown like dirt to the wind, and that's just the planned layoffs reported thus far, because a gagglefuck of capitalist shitheads on Wall Street and their oracles are throwing tantrums about interest rates or whatever and the quarterly projections may not support the usual infinite growth on the workers' backs this year. In other words, it's been about 5-8 years so the working class is due for another squeeze in the ol' vice as per usual with capitalism.
I've been seeing what must be the effects of this crap in the job listings for my area. It's the most discouraging I've seen since like 2009. College degree or not, there's little to choose from and the competition for the scraps is undoubtedly high once again. What's also fun is I really don't want the job I have now but if I quit I am completely fucked and would be getting a much lower wage even if I did find something else.
People are more convinced that inflation will keep falling, and their outlook on their personal finances has also improved.
The rate of inflation fell ever so slightly, my 'outlook' on personal finances is still "work my body and joints to dust until 5 years before biological death" but hey, I can maybe retire to a lavish life of discount bulk pet food and a cardboard box apartment paid for with 70% of my Social Security income like 2 days earlier than previous, now. Pop the fucking corks!
The job market remains strong
Strong for who? Strong for fucking who? Try getting literally any god damn job as a blue collar these days. Nightmare mode if you have psychological issues. Just fucking try and you will see how swell it is. That one blissful year or so of companies hiring any warm body off the street during and immediately after the COVID19 outbreak is over, the 'getting a job' process has been back to business as usual for over two years now.
When I was school-age, I was friends with a kid who was into hockey along with his brother for most of their growing years. They were on competitive teams and it was a major part of their lives. Their parents had two SUVs which were used multiple times weekly to haul all the gear around.
That's the only time I've known of someone making practical use of these obscenely large and wasteful oil burners. A smaller station wagon would've fit everything though, if you could buy them any more. Roads in the US are congested now with large sedans, those crossover things, and enormous pickup trucks with pristine beds. Cars in the US seem to have trended toward larger sizes in recent decades, smaller station wagons and things like the old Honda Civic or Geo Metro no longer exist (in my opinion the modern Civic is fucking huge and hideous compared to its namesake), and trying to find what was once called a compact/subcompact is impossible these days.
Yes there has been a consolidation over the decades into few large, corporate operations. You can still buy fresh produce and other farm goods locally from the same people who grew them in "farmer's markets" in towns and cities, but these are only in limited times of year and locations. For most Americans the food they buy and eat will have come to their supermarket from some massive factory-like supply chain, average distance of over 1,000 miles away, or something like that (I've not read up on this topic in many years).
The documentary Food, Inc. narrates a surprising and dark picture of the state of farming in the U.S., and it was filmed 17 years ago! So food production has progressed further into profits-at-all-cost corporate hands since then. Similar things happened with smaller, often local, goods stores disappearing during 1980s-1990s due to emergence of large shopping malls and multi-department corporate chains like Walmart and Target (you may see this referred to as the Main Street "ghost town").