The Dollar Era

How much did a life actually cost in America.. and when did it stop being affordable?

The Dollar Era reconstructs the real economics of the American past, line by line: the wages, the rent, the price of bread, the car payment, the savings left at the end of the week. Each episode rebuilds a real piece of American life from a specific year .. a household budget, a single paycheck, what a dollar truly bought, using historical price and wage records, then traces the honest reason that life is harder to afford today.

No nostalgia myths. No outrage. Just the real numbers, and the real history behind them.
Every episode is original, independently researched and scripted from historical economic sources, and produced in-house. New episodes every week.