It’s the lack of affordable (read normal prices) housing. If we didn’t have to spend so much in rent/housing maybe wages wouldn’t be such an issue but a lack of leadership from both gop and dem had made it so that nimbly, red tape, and zoning laws, Airbnb and rampant house flipping cash investors made it incredibly expensive for the average family to get housing. Now that there’s a lack of labor low wage companies that where paying slave wages are now ponying up but small biz cannot compete.