Half of all WORKING Americans make $30,000 a year or less. Ponder that.
Yeah, that is crazy. I was making more than that 15 years ago (prob equiv of $40k today) after working in retail for 2 years as a department manager at a grocery store (starting as a cashier). All it took was hard work and a good attitude.
And even less than that will have any retirement options at all. Besides Social Security.
Poor people have poor habits.
Half of all WORKING Americans make $30,000 a year or less. Ponder that.
And now my daughter and her husband are moving here from Seattle next month. Same situation. The crazy cost of living rising even faster than their wages along with the rising taxes just sent them over the edge.
And LOTS of those people like putting EVERYTHING on their charge card... they pay tons of interest
AND, half can’t raise 400 bucks 4 an emergency...?
Retail, food service, and even administrative positions are among the low paying jobs.
And, if they are working, to Bolshies, they are rich.
If your not able to work full time, as many are not in Leftist states with high income and job services requirements it can be hard to make 30k.
That said a lot of people choose to stay under that so that they can get an additional 30k in government services, everything from subsided housing. Which in my city are in prime locations.
to free healthcare and countless other benefits.
As your not paying any income tax on that money you get to take all of it home. that’s almost 2500 a month.
So maybe you spend about 600-800 on a nice subsided house.
that should leave you 1.9 to 1.7k for remaining expense of car, food, and entertainment.
No wonder theses people tend to have all of that.