I often wonder similarly. comes down to double income. We went from families being raised on 40 hours a week labor to 100 or more.
As someone currently raosong 2 kids on a single fairly meager income, it comes down to budgeting, extreme price sensitivity and using the annual child tax credits as a cash injection to rebalance everything every 12 months and/or subsidize major needed purchases
Glad I’m not alone in this. Tight budgeting that slowly trickles down to negative and then the tax credits come in and give us a boost to hopefully last the next year.
imagine if that credit was removed due to certain politicians who respond with people need to budget better and bootstrap and crap.
A trump presidency would be the beginning of the end. Republicans want compete control because they need it inact their cruel policies. When the common folk are on the streets hungry, the rich start to look awfully appetizing.
Politicians should have to live on the federal minimum wage. Their jobs and staff can be managed by an office manager. Any personal wealth has to go into a blind trust so there’s no cheating.
Let’s see how fast that wage comes up.
Yup. Something to remember whenever Forbes or WSJ publishes some feel-good article about how, “household income is keeping up with inflation.”
What they don’t mention is the “household” now includes everyone except the family dog. And even with everyone working, the quality of life continues to decline.
In addition to this way too many people I know are receiving SSI disability checks on top of that. 😅 I got folks on oxygen and walkers that get less SSI then a bunch of 20 year olds I know.
The entire SSI/SSDI system is fucked. It’s arbitrary and unnecessarily complex. Linking disability benefits to time worked is also cruel and arbitrary to younger workers who become disabled. And especially to people who never have the chance to build a work history at all. Then the idea that it has to be capped to an even outcome instead of a livable floor plus medical expenses…
That last part might just be why the younger people get paid more. They have less assets that count against the monthly pay.
But there is one thing SSI/SSDI have in common. The pay drops in step with money earned. So if you go get a job then you’re not going to get much of an SSI check, if any at all. And SSDI can be outright revoked for working.
I find this hard to believe. I’d be curious to hear roughly how many people you know that are on disability.
For those unaware, social security is extremely strict with earned income affecting benefits. It’s also incredibly difficult to start getting disability benefits, even with mountains of documentation and medical records. It’s quite common to have to appeal a case multiple times, and it often takes years for people to be approved.
They aren’t. Your coworkers are making more. Talk about pay with coworkers as you may be getting screwed
Always talk about your pay. It’s better for everyone
Employer: We fired Asafum for disobedience and poor conduct. (No mention whatsoever of retaliation for discussing pay.)
I was told when I was hired that they would fire anyone discussing pay. We work in a factory, there is no such thing as email proof when you’re a meat machine with no email.
Single party recording consent laws if you’re lucky
Well depending where you work that could have been illegal. This is where unions come in. I’m sorry to hear of such mistreatment my friend. I was also forced out of a job for talking about wages
I did that at my first job. I got docked pay for it. I didn’t mind, the others used it to leverage for more.
The Orbs are, including possibly cryptographic energy systems like Monero (XMR).
What
Really makes you ponder
Looking at their profile it looks like every comment they have ever made has been removed.
It’s honestly kind of impressive, I don’t know what they said but it seems like everyone hates it lol
Interesting. I checked, and it’s actually removed. Not just a fake comment.
They’re a troll who posts a bunch of pseudointellectual/pseudophilosophical comments saying stupid shit mentioning quantum physics or lambda calculus or euclidean geometry or other fancy looking math words
Have you ever heard of the “time cube”? Their posts are kinda like that.
There’s readable comments scattered throughout, but it was mostly word salad that seems to have a penchant for mentioning birds of specific colors.
Must be a federated thing because from this account all I see is a sea of “Removed” but on some of my alts I see the word salad
Maybe it is just my client, but i see removed comments by using " view raw". By the way the comment was: “The Orbs are, including possibly cryptographic energy systems like Monero (XMR).”
I hacked the internet using an honest and complex computer code I precisely wrote in English (and a tiny amount of Spanish), and also paracetemol taken with berry juice.
Oh, of course
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Couldn’t agree more with that🧐
Food pantry time
The trick is that they are working another job, and their partner is probably working two as well 🙃
My kiddo is just a toddler, but in our VHCOL area, at this age the only thing that really matters is childcare expenses. If we had family/grandparents taking care of them, the additional cost would be pretty minimal, in the scheme of things.
The max contribution to dependent FSA (tax free account for daycare) is a joke, less than 2mo of care.
The material things we’ve needed probably amount to less than one month of daycare expenses (diapers notwithstanding).
Saving for college, on the other hand…
