Hitting the Financial Precipice
ARE WE THERE YET?
Seems like a good bulk of the US population is approaching the financial precipice. Been reading how health insurance (for people lucky enough to enjoy) have increased 3-5 fold with employers in 2024. The cost of everything becoming prohibitive. Massive layoffs. The media adds salt to the wound by touting strong metrics.
Painful awakening for many.
Where are there massive layoffs? I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that I haven't heard anything about it, and employers are desperate to hire people where I live. There are help wanted signs everywhere, and some places are even advertising online and on tv trying to find people. Everything from food servers making $13/hr to computer security specialists making 150-200k/yr. Nurses, teachers, cashiers, etc...
Maybe it's a regional thing?
Only job growth is in part time work. And even some of that is fake postings online.
Amazon is laying off people.
After the holidays Amazon always lays off the seasonal staff in almost every division. This goes for temporary seasonal hires at UPS, FedX, Target, Walmart and Costco, etc.,.
Amazon layoffs are more exacerbated
Hmm, that's not what I'm seeing, and that's not what the numbers are saying.
What numbers are you looking at? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm trying to figure out why I keep seeing people here state that the job market is so bad when that's not what I'm seeing, and that's not what the numbers are saying.
I know that we tend to skew more toward rural areas, and those places don't really have good job outlooks. So maybe it's a location thing.