Posted on 01/29/2019 2:50:33 PM PST by bgill
More than four million, or 42 percent, of Texas households couldn’t afford basic needs such as housing, child care, food, transportation and technology in 2016, according to a new report released by United Ways of Texas. ALICE, or “Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed," are households that earn more than the federal poverty level (meaning they may not qualify for some help), but less than the basic cost of living in Texas. The ALICE project started as a pilot program in New Jersey and now includes 18 states... The report provides county-level information and tracks what Texas households experienced from 2007 to 2010, then 2016. For a family of four, the cost of basic household needs in 2016 was $52,956 and $19,428 for a single adult. “Not surprisingly, the number of households that could not afford basic needs increased by 14 percent during the Recession, but that number then increased by another 17 prevent during the recovery from 2010 to 2016, despite economic improvement,”... It costs an average of $1,133 per month for two children in licensed and accredited childcare, or $995 for registered home-based care.
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I noticed they didn’t say health ins premiums. Wonder what it would look like if those on govt subsidies were taken out.
Since when is transportation a basic need? O wait.. since the supreme court said we can force you to buy anything.
The welfare office secretary here quit when she realized the clients were making more than she was at a 40/hr week job.
Exactly, where was this bull crap when obozzo was in office for 8 years and the economy was in the crapper? I call bull on this report.
Same here on TracFone. Only purchase the 90 day service minutes and have a basic (non-smart phone). It’s only used as a “flat tire phone”. In other words, for emergency use only, not for blabbing. I had to be on the phone constantly at work before my retirement, and that’s why I hate a phone. Also, only have basic cable with no premium channels and basic internet. Don’t partake of any of the filth that is supposed to be entertainment pushed out by Hollyweird. Rarely eat out. And I don’t feel that I’m being deprived.
I just don’t see it. Oh, wait, a Republican is in the White House. We’re all starving and homeless. Let’s vote Democrat next time!
I once was told by a speaker at a rotary meeting that half the familiar in Connecticut could not afford a median priced home. I swear people do not understand statistics.
thereby eliminating the cost of childcare
Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to “redistribute.”
Socialism/Communism/Democratic-Socialism produces NOTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to “redistribute.”
Socialism/Communism/Democraticic-Socialism can only exist as a parasite of capitalism.
The more Socialism/Communism/Democratic-Socialism you have, the less capitalism you have.
The less capitalism you have, the less Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists have to “redistribute.”
Familiar is families.
Up until 3 years ago we lived on less than $52,000 as a family of 8. It was hard, but we lived with few luxuries in order to feed, clothe and educate our kids. I remember crying in my car in the grocery store parking lot because I knew how little I had and that I needed to figure out how to feed my kids with it.
$52,000 for just four people still seems like luxurious living to me.
But by the time they pay out what it costs to keep a job and work they are making less than if they were on welfare.
Which is what we did.
And not only is it less costly, you wind up with a healthier more well-adjusted child.
The hard economic fact is that with two or three children, the wife has to make really, really, good money to make it economically feasible.
Most Americans are so mathematically challenged they can’t figure it out. If you got two kids in daycare figure out what it costs you for extra doctor visits per year because of all the crap they’re exposed to.
The income level of the wife at the level where it becomes financially viable, requires considerable money in more than just child care. The cost of a wardrobe in a year for a woman making that kind of money is high. Automobile transportation all that stuff adds up but people have to be able to extrapolate that. And most of the American population doesn’t even know what extrapolate means.
Over the decades, we’ve given these folks how many MILLIONS???? And, they’re still not able to afford ‘basic needs’???
I think many of these freeloaders have a different idea of what basic needs are, than we do.
Median is the most common house price in the area of interest. It could easily be out of the average wage earner’s reach. Think San Francisco.
“I think many of these freeloaders have a different idea of what basic needs are, than we do.”
Exactly!
Their idea of “basic needs” are everything that working people have-——without working.
Makes me sick!!!!
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How can we have “hungry (ie starving) kids” and a youth obesity epidemic at the same time?
We have what used to be a historical impossibility! Fat poor! Poor not suffering from the disease of malnutrition but from diseases of obesity !
Plus an iPhone, iPad, designer clothes and season tickets to a pro sports team.
Get rid of all the illegals Tejas is supporting; things might change...
By definition half of all homes are below the median and half above. If most families purchase what they can afford, half of them can afford half of the homes.
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